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  Jad Elmourad addressed criticism #5596.

Ok so let’s put ourselves in the shoes of someone who genuinely thinks different decimal numbers lead to different variants for both competing explanations, and that, as a result, there are infinitely many variants for each. Walk me through how that person would use your program?

In short, the question is: how can we use the program when we genuinely think both explanations have infinitely many variants?

#5596​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 days ago

If the user already judges that both explanations have infinitely many working variations, do they really need the program to tell them that they're equally hard to vary? That seems unlikely—the result already follows from the inputs.

That said, if you think it's important for the program itself to represent this case explicitly, I can extend it to handle infinite families of variations as I suggested in #5598. I see that as a small extension to the implementation rather than a problem with the underlying HTV procedure.