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Ah, yes, that'd work. Thanks! (Efficiency will obviously eventually go to hell, but I was always expecting that.) (And by the latter I assume you meant, "Objective C looks really ugly. You're a mathematician. Use Lisp"? :p (Or possibly Z?)

OK, question: I'm trying to run the tree version, but I've run into a bug: (children is the list of kids, square brackets are method calls.) I think you can see the issue: if we can't find a living kid, we call successor of the guy's father - which of course immediately calls us again...

Ah, that's true, I guess. Point. ...But I'm not one of them.

But OTOH the humans have gone from being at war with each other to being embroiled in a three-way hatehatehate deathfest.

I am, and if you can explain a way for a third-year math student to make money off those skills that doesn't involve computers, I'd be eager to hear it. ;) (Er, sorry if the previous post came off a little more insulted than I actually feel. :o)

...Er... thanks? I appreciate the offer but I do do this for a living (well, not this project per se, but you get my point) so I feel reasonably competent. Now that I've assuaged my programmer-pride, I will eat crow and say that on consideration the tree method is probably the way to do it...