That makes sense... I agree, and I don't really have an elegant answer to that at the moment. I simply accepted the fact that the magic might stop happening at

That makes sense... I agree, and I don't really have an elegant answer to that at the moment. I simply accepted the fact that the magic might stop happening at (x * 2) / 2. This acceptance bought me certainty about overflow behavior. I think it was a good tradeoff.