So is this just a matter of running tons of different tests and analyzing results or is this a matter of thinking outside the box and just happening to come up with the correct ideas? I have been following along this whole time and I can tell how close we are, but I haven't been able to put a great deal of time towards doing math. VQC went through a full example and gave the answer, so we've obviously got all the tools we need. I just can't tell if it's a matter of taking a whole bunch of examples of each of these new functions with various a and b values and their corresponding (x+n) squares and analyzing the relationships as finely as possible to figure out the f/40 thing etc or if there's a fundamental rule behind these concepts that we haven't picked up on yet.