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> that the request to the API fires to run the calculations and return the results

Why use an API? seems like that raises a lot of security/privacy issues and these calculations are simple enough to do locally, no?

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Primarily because C# is my main language and I vastly prefer to write calculation engines with it.. Also the inputs could just as likely be random theoretical numbers, I am not perceiving a security or privacy issue?

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