Powell said his opportunity this season was “addition by subtraction.”

The team plied their subject AI models with questions drawn from a popular collection of more than 8,000 grade school arithmetic problems testing schoolchildren’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

But in light of the Supreme Court’s decision, those subtractions make the case that much stronger.

The former is addition by subtraction; the latter, addition by constancy.

That’s where another of the firm’s tenets — “addition by subtraction” — comes into play.