operation here where we look for the s number in one of these sets on that operation will advance us by a fraction but by a factor of about one over P but that's just what happens because this thing is distributed like a fraction of P over the natural numbers so when you index into it you you you increase by a fraction of one over P so that means that every time you encode a symbol onto on to a state I guess it's called X here you end up multiplying your natural number by about 1 over P that's generally what happens approximately so