<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@loke" class="u-url mention">@<span>loke</span></a></span> no? I don't know what you're calculating, but it's not what I'm talking about.</p><p>For example, 100 takes 14 steps: <br />100, 99, 97, 94, 90, 85, 79, 72, 64, 55, 45, 34, 22, 11, 0</p><p>But anyway, I really don't like you saying "isn't it simply ...". Even if what you said was the right answer, I wasn't claiming that the thing I'd written was hard. My original post was about how I'd unexpectedly found a really roundabout way to compute what turned out to be just the natural numbers. The interesting part is thinking about why that's true.</p>