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 If this would involve significant C++ hackery, I suspect it's beyond my
 abilities. I need to do research here.
+=== Bignum Arithmetic ===
+After [[people:divs115|Sridivya]]'s comments about the viability of the MFM for
+correctness-sensitive applications (e.g. a calculator), I thought it might be
+interesting to try to construct a system for arbitrary precision arithmetic with
+extremely high probability of correctness, roughly on par with the expectation
+of correctness in traditional computing paradigms.
+This idea feels at odds with the robust-first philosphy, but it seems like it
+would be worthwhile to show that robustness and correctness aren't mutually
+exclusive (or, in the event of failure, make no strong claims).
+=== Wall-less Garden ===
+The "Wall-less"-ness here refers to the fact that the MFM is indefinitely
+scalable in theory.  This idea was born during the makeshift class exercise on
+Monday, Sept 18, where we tried to create a ''Leaf'' Element that would grow in
+response to ''Ray''s projected by a ''Sun''.
+This idea could be expanded to produce several different plant types (perhaps
+encoding some notion of inter-species germination) that depend on a finite set
+of resources (energy from the sun, water, nutrients from the soil).  It could be
+fun to try to grow a garden, of sorts.  There's lots of room for growth here, in
+the form of variety of plants each potentially composed of smaller elements, and
+in the environment necessary to encourage "organic" behavior.
+Something that would need to be answered soon is: "Is this a side-on or top-down
+view?"  I'm tempted to have something top-down, since that permits growth of
+tall, sun-hogging plants, and shorter plants that thrive without the sun's
+energy.
+This project idea seems to fall more in the "Art" side of things, serving no
+practical purpose that I can think of other than to watch something pretty (or
+not) emerge.