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The algorithm I'm working on now is kind of like the multiplication table, but bigger. The idea is to make a computer remember all of the different ways that two water molecules can interact with each other, just like remembering how each two numbers interact (6 x 4 = 24, 9 x 10 = 90, etc). While a multiplication table has two dimensions, the table of water interactions has six dimensions: three distances and three angles.
It's It’s challenging to fit this six-dimensional model into even a computer's computer’s memory. But the advantage is, remembering an answer that you already know is usually faster than working it out again. My water model should allow people to do accurate calculations about water molecules faster than ever before, which is useful when studying water-based things like ice, steam, and human cells.
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