?? euclidean algorithm ... infinite loop ... loss of innocence ... henceforth algorithms would crash on a regular basis ... ??

?? symmetries made to be broken ... ??humans will try to apply them even when they're broken ... ??? sometimes it even works .... tic-tac-toe .... bugged me my inability to draw perfectly straight lines, perfectly symmetric pictures ... but the symmetry application worked anyway ... in the abstract context .... ????? ....