Dumb answers to dumb questions

Why do I even have that recursion in the first place? It's to account for if beta gives me an output that's of the same value, but structurally different... but beta can't do that! Except in the trivial case. Which raises the big question: Why the hell am I calling it in the trivial case? Skip that one! Get on with the searching actual cases! And eliminate the dumb recursion to handle an unnecessary case!

...this will probably simplify things a lot, but it won't be enough to fix the function fully. Oh well. It's a good start.

Oh hey, I'm not in Boston anymore, am I?

...yeah, somehow I don't think I'm going to ever write down most of the things I said I was going to. Perhaps if I'm bored (which I assuredly will be) I'll get around to some of it. (Today I had a headache and spent much of the day napping.) I can't even transcribe the T-shirt for you, because I don't have one. I forgot to take one at first, and later, whoops, order was screwed up, they're out of mediums. So, they'll be sending one here, to the house.

I guess now I finally have time to get back to work on the (2^a)(3^b) problem. By which I mean, getting that program to work so I can see how far I can push the method I've been using. Today's progress: Removing the "FIX" tags from things I've already fixed, and writing a summary in the comments of what the *current* problem is! Whee. I think I may want to do some reorganization...

-Harry