yuck

for the record buchberger's algorithm is officially my nemesis... buchberger is the algorithm that finds a grobner basis for a polynomial ideal. i'm sitting here in algorithmic math class and we're trying to program the algorithm together in maple, and i already spent 8 hours trying to do it yesterday and couldn't manage to make it work... now, even though i'm the only person who's seen it in another class before, i'm the one person who can't seem to answer anything right.

i can't answer questions about it, i can't program it, i can't seem to do anything about it right no matter how many times i see it.

i officially hate buchberger's algorithm... stupid polynomial reductions...

end of rant.