deep in data
Lots of C# yesterday. I walked in swearing I had the fix for a bug, opened up the compiler, and my hands froze. What was I typing? How was this going to work? Back up, retrench. I spent a long time analyzing the data. I made an excel spreadsheet of all the fields, but at 3columns and 18rows it was too much to keep track of. Then I used power point to show exactly which field was affecting what. Not only was it pretty, but it showed that 9 out of 18 rows were data dead-ends: they were only products of a calculation rather than a source. So, armed with my new knowledge, I cracked open the code.
The irony is with all that work, I still see nothing wrong with my original algorithm, which was actually commented pretty well. I made one change and am getting different results, but overall this bug with the results is still not fixed. I'll keep going on it today.