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This is a good example. That was math heavy, it took me too long to parse for basic understanding and honestly I am not sure I got it right. The LUA code was easy to understand even though those variable names force you to read all the code, and guess what is what.

It has been a long time since I did diff eq at work, and I agree with the PDF the more I knew the less I understood. I dont know why I need to have the math tainted by the unclean reality to understand, and if that hinders my understanding of them.




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