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the scalability characteristics approached "all the energy in the universe" levels of compute pretty quickly

Something someone was doing in excel scaled up to taking all the energy in the universe? That does not sound right.

His point was they'd only done a small set in Excel as a POC. It's plausible that with an O(2ⁿ) algorithm you'd be looking at this kind of thing.

I just can't imagine what results someone would need that would mean a mandatory unscalable algorithm.