SecondTypist wrote: July 13th, 2026, 7:22 pm
MDA wrote: July 13th, 2026, 7:17 am
Why does the number of rules in the Catagolue INT rule table occasionally decrease? A few weeks ago, there were exactly 14,000 apgsearched INT rules, but today, there are only 13,836.
I don’t know, but you could probably sift through or query the rules that are present on the June 27th, 2026 Wayback Machine capture of the Catagolue list of the INT rules (
https://web.archive.org/web/20260627065 ... /isotropic) and contrast them. There is probably a common thread between the ones that vanished. My uneducated guess would be that their censuses were erroneous.
Note: Judging by MDA’s account of there having been 14000 APGsearched rules, the June 27th capture is a bit late, as ~100 rules had already vanished by then.
Between June 27th and July 26th of this year, 69 new rules were APGsearched, whilst 162 rules vanished from Catagolue. The rules that vanished had an approximate average of 1.290123457 censuses, which is much lower than the average on the Catagolue right now, which is approximately 2.01976399. None of the rules that vanished had a name listed on Catagolue. A majority of the rules that vanished had 1 census, some had 2, and 2 of them had 3. The three outliers (in how many censuses they had) were B3-kq4j/S23-y4n5ae with 6 censuses, B3-e6e/S23-cy4enyz5e6e with 8 censuses, and B37e/S2aei3-cknq4aijrwz with 25 censuses, none of which I found mention of in these forums.
The list of rules that vanished (with their number of censuses) is as follows (please excuse me for the misalignment, it is displayed as monospaced, but when you type it, it is entered in a variable width font, I used tabs for spacing):
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I have not yet actually ran any of the rules, but I may later.
Edit: it seems that the rules do, in fact, exist. If you type in the URL for any of these rules, you will be brought to its page with all of the censuses fully present. However, for some reason, they do not appear on the rules page in Catagolue. So therefore, the rules didn’t vanish, but for some reason left the table of rulestrings, which is likely what the count of rules that has decreased is based upon.