The transferable structure is reduce, branch, blind-compare, refine. Consumer counts can be smaller without losing the logic.
The sequence describes professional-scale search over a large component and formula space.
From roughly twenty to thirty candidate batches spanning six to eight recipes, Elliott narrows to five or six promising components, sketches several test blends, and then expands promising directions into roughly twenty to forty blind-evaluated variants.
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