Challenge accepted!

Recently a mate of mine had been mulling over a puzzle that he’d found via Reddit and couldn’t solve. It goes something like this “You can only be exactly twice someone’s age once, and it’s when they turn the same age you were when they were born. Every birthday after that makes you less than twice their age”. So I thought, ‘Hang on a moment! I’ve been writing calendar orientated small Java programs, Java has a “GregorianCalendar” class that I can use, and you can perform time functions! Challenge accepted!’.

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Collapsed Topics is 14!

On the 18th February 2023, I was improving Collapsed Topics with the consequence of updating the Changes.md file. This lead to me scanning through all that I had done since its creation. Then I realised that the first version (0.1) was released on the 21st February 2009, and thus its fourteenth birthday would be on the 21st February 2023. I had to do something to celebrate this event.

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