...though right now is not really the time for me to get it... going to go up to see my family in a day or two.

Hm. I'm searching around for what kind of resources are available on the net. There's a ton of them, but digging them out is difficult. It's easy to find an algorithm once you know its name, but just finding algorithms is not so easy...

I think the Internet could use a repository of (non-patented open) algorithms, organised by type.