I think there's value in completely ignoring the race. I'm probably going to do this either in a language I'm learning as I go, or in something like Erlang whi

I think there's value in completely ignoring the race. I'm probably going to do this either in a language I'm learning as I go, or in something like Erlang which, whilst great to get correct, will not iterate as fast (for me at least) as the Ruby solution I could quickly and easily write.