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Nov. 15th, 2007 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenSo, have been working long hours and scratching my head a lot the last three days over a tricksy little problem.* After several false starts I finally figured out the right way to approach it, did something sneaky with inventing people who don't exist and then ignoring them**, and got a mucking big ugly-looking expression.
Hey, I can cancel those bits...
...and those bits...
...and those bits too...
...and everything else, leaving zero.
I'd never realised it was possible to be pleased and disgruntled at the same time.
*Tricksy to me, anyway. I'm fairly sure there's a standard result, but I'm a reinvent-the-wheel sort of guy.
**This actually made some sort of sense at the time.
Hey, I can cancel those bits...
...and those bits...
...and those bits too...
...and everything else, leaving zero.
I'd never realised it was possible to be pleased and disgruntled at the same time.
*Tricksy to me, anyway. I'm fairly sure there's a standard result, but I'm a reinvent-the-wheel sort of guy.
**This actually made some sort of sense at the time.
