AM6 question

[Shannon]

Think of it like this.

You have this lump of gold ore,, and you want to remove everything but the gold. So first you put it in Solution #1, and that is designed to dissolve all of the stone. And after a while, it has dissolved enough stone that there is just (say) carbon left for it to be in contact with.

So then you take it out of Solution #1 and put it in Solution #2. And now it's dissolving the carbon, until it encounters too much stone and (say) iron to continue. So now you put it in Solution #3, which dissolves the iron, and when that's all gone, you have too much stone, carbon and (say) corundum left to reach any more iron, you put it in the next solution, which dissolves corundum, and so forth. And in Solution #6, you will have one of two states:

State 1 is where you need to repeat the process, because dissolving one thing revealed more of another that needs to be dissolved still in one or more of the dissolving stages, or...

State 2 is where you have pure gold left.

If after a run, you have State 1, then you naturally have to repeat the process. And it may take more than one repeat.

Each stage focuses you on the specifics of that stage. If you have more work to do, then it will be challenging. If not, then it will be easy. That's why we do it in steps/stages, and that's why we do it more than once. You don't take one step to get to the top of the Empire State Building, and six steps doesn't do it either... unless you're almost there to begin with.

And guys, please bear in mindthat it took me five runs to get where I wanted to be, but I used Version 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... you guys have Version 6, and some are using Version 5. I doubt it would take the vast majority of people five runs with either of those, although 6 is much better than 5.