He repeated the idea under his breath, as if pinning it in place:
Transformation, substitution, or direct discretization—keep pushing until the computational burden of simulation drops dramatically.
The direction was suddenly very clear.
So Daniel Hayes lowered his head and got to work.
His pen began flying across the page with a dry, rapid scratching sound. Lines of symbols spilled downward in tight formation, one after another, without hesitation. He was so focused that even his posture changed. The looseness disappeared from his shoulders. His eyes sharpened. His whole body seemed to narrow toward the paper.
An entire sheet was filled just to complete a single transformation and its discretized expression.
Sitting beside him, Melissa Ken stared for a while, then slowly shook her h
