Computational Studies of Ca2+ and Mg2+ Solvation Energies, Simplified. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Studies on a Computer of How Hard It Is to Get Two Really Tiny Things That We Write with an Add Sign After Their Name Stuck in Water: A number that means how hard you need to try to get one tiny thing to stay surrounded by a big crowd of other tiny things was added up for two tiny things that can’t be broken up smaller (the kind you use to start a fire and the kind that you get when you drink the stuff that comes out of the animal with white and black spots) in the state where we write an add sign after their name, in water. The answers came from making a pretend box of it inside the computer and keeping track of a lot of numbers over 12000000 really small bits of a second and doing the thing where you get the area under a line. A force field (this one is named after a really tiny animal) was used that keeps track of where the add signs and take-away signs are inside the tiny things you can’t break smaller. Three different sets of numbers to control how far the add signs and take-away signs can move were looked at next to each other, but no clear answer was found. The numbers using the force field with moving add signs and take-away signs were also looked at next to the numbers that came from last fall when the same two really tiny things were studied with a force field that keeps the add signs or take-away signs stuck in place (this force field is named after the hard stuff that comes from trees that died a long time ago). It was found that numbers from pretend boxes using one force field match the numbers people get when they actually do it with their hands for the tiny thing that you get from the black and white animal, but the pretend-box numbers are smaller than the doing-it-for-real numbers for the tiny thing you use to start fires. In the pretend boxes that use the other force field, the numbers match doing-it-for-real numbers for the tiny thing that you use to starts fires but do not match for the tiny thing you get by drinking the stuff from the black and white animal.