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+# Code from the Polymath REU Walking to Infinity on Special Sequences project
+
+The code is organized by language so that people who knew different programming
+languages would still be able to test out sequences, since the tree system I
+came up with for checking every possible path of a sequence is so versatile.
+Each language has an implementation of the tree system as well as a sample and a
+template, so you can easily try out any sequence you want. Rust was primarily
+used for the hefty calculations involving things other than the tree system,
+since it is so fast and easy to use. All the tree code is well documented and
+commented, and the fast code is not, but fairly straightforward.