> first you ask why a computer simulation could be better than doing it manually No, I never asked this at all. Some people changed the question to this for re

> first you ask why a computer simulation could be better than doing it manually No, I never asked this at all. Some people changed the question to this for reasons I still don't understand. The actual question I asked was: "what are the criteria for distinguishing those scenarios from the interesting cases? And how do we know which case this one is like?" The whole point here is to figure out if the problems they're declaring computational superiority on are analogous to the wooden stick problem here. Not to ask "when are simulations better than doing it manually".