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Si @silicon

My lovely idea is not going to work :( back to the drawing board ...

Looks like what I want to do is lik N^3 as complicated as I originally thought so that's ... not great.

BUT it hasn't definitively proved to be impossible yet so I'm not giving up quite yet!