Why I named Anagh's Law

On 10 October 2026, a bus-and-tunnel observation led me to the name Anagh's Law and the line “Clear the maximum, clear the rest.” If a containing envelope clears a space, an envelope inside it clears in the same admissible placement.

The underlying mathematics is elementary and familiar. Naming it does not make it a new theorem. I have separated the mathematical note, which now defines the geometric model and states the hypotheses explicitly, from this account of the naming experiment.

The experiment is to give an elementary observation a memorable name, document its origin, and see whether other people find the formulation useful enough to repeat. The interesting milestones are discoverability, accurate attribution, and eventually independent use.

Publication record

The canonical explanation is on this site. The original GitHub release and Zenodo record preserve the 10 October edition. The revised mathematical note is version 1.1.0, dated 11 October 2026; that earlier DOI identifies version 1.0.0.

A public timestamp records publication. It does not establish priority over all possible earlier uses, peer review, institutional endorsement, or independent adoption.

What would count as adoption?

An independent citation, an accurate explanation, or unprompted use would be evidence worth recording. Several pages and uploads published by me establish a publication record; they do not establish independent adoption.

I keep a separate experiment log for observations and uncertainty. Search visibility is one observation. A generated answer that retrieves a page is not evidence that the idea was included in a model's training data. No claim of independent adoption is made here.