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This was a good opportunity to refresh my grasp on the math involved in losslessly stuffing a tuple into a single number. JS-in-the-browser has Sets and Maps but no Tuples, and Arrays are indexed on their id / memory handle instead of their value contents, so if you want to put coordinates into a set or map and have the collection behave as expected you need to serialize the coordinates into a primitive type. Stuff it into a string if you don't want to think too hard. For this specific problem we don't even need to be able to compute the original coordinates (just count the unique removed points) but implementing that computation was a handy way to verify the "serializer" was working correctly.
Seeing as the record tuple proposal was withdrawn in February of this year this is still a technique worth knowing when working with coords in JS.
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