"*having an atomic *weight allows you to break some degeneracies."
Thanks Roger. This bit about the atomic weights seems the most interesting part, the only thing that can save the algorithm from exponential expense. I still don't have a good idea of what the final complexity ends up being. "*The edge cases are yours to deal with, they're totally legit potential *molecular structures..." The question of what ends up being constructible and under what (potentially extreme) conditions is fascinating. I spent a chunk of the morning thinking about the time scales that one can expect certain compounds to come into existence, especially when some of their constituent atoms require supernova in the first place. Is it safe to say that there are compounds that exist only on Earth?
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