01 — The company
A Ljubljana company that writes software for telephones.
MAKS-MANE d.o.o. is registered at Zakotnikova ulica 1 in Ljubljana. The work is building applications and putting them on the store under our own name.
Small enough that the person who answers the post is the person who signs the filings. There is no showroom and no sales desk; what belongs on a page like this is the registry entry and a route back to a human being, which is what the next two plates are.
02 — The register
03 — One measurable thing
Almost nothing you can draw on a grid of dots is a loop.
Take a square lattice and allow every short segment between neighbouring dots to be either drawn or left out. The number of pictures you can make that way is enormous. The number of them that form one unbroken closed loop — no crossings, no branches, no second ring — is tiny, and the gap between those two counts grows at a speed that is hard to believe until it is written down.
Draw segments at random on a 5 × 5 lattice and the odds of landing on a loop are about 1 in 118 million. A puzzle that supplies numbers until exactly one of those 9 349 loops survives is doing something quite unlike searching.
Counting was done by exhaustive enumeration: every simple cycle in the lattice was walked once, anchored at its lowest dot to avoid counting the same ring twice or once per direction. The five results are 1, 13, 213, 9 349 and 1 222 363, and the largest of them took fifteen seconds of machine time to produce — which is why the control stops at six dots a side rather than carrying on politely into numbers nobody has finished counting. Absent by design: there is no puzzle here, no clue numbers, nothing to solve and nothing drawn on the lattice except every segment at once. This counts a haystack; finding the needle is a separate activity and it happens elsewhere.
04 — Also on the store
There is a pencil puzzle under our name.
It is called Zanka — Slovenian for a loop. Dots, a few numbers, and one closed line to find by reasoning rather than by trying things. It runs offline, asks for no account, and sells nothing inside itself.
Zanka com.loopline.zanka Privacy policy →
05 — Writing in
Company matters go to studio@maks-mane.world. Anything concerning Zanka, or these pages, goes to loop@maks-mane.world. Paper reaches us at the seat in Zakotnikova ulica.
Both boxes are read by a person. A plain description of what you need will get further than a form would.