From c58ebcc9f9237fee1fa85f3a069b3a7fdadccc5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ean Milligan <ean.milligan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 14:47:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] -1 loop per iteration by only asserting paren () balance when
 () exist in the mathConf

---
 src/artigen/math/mathTokenizer.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/artigen/math/mathTokenizer.ts b/src/artigen/math/mathTokenizer.ts
index 497de35..f44c1b0 100644
--- a/src/artigen/math/mathTokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/artigen/math/mathTokenizer.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export const tokenizeMath = (
   loggingEnabled && log(LT.LOG, `Split roll into mathConf ${JSON.stringify(mathConf)}`);
 
   // Verify balanced parens before doing anything
-  assertParenBalance(mathConf);
+  if (mathConf.includes('(') || mathConf.includes(')')) assertParenBalance(mathConf);
 
   // Evaluate all rolls into stepSolve format and all numbers into floats
   for (let i = 0; i < mathConf.length; i++) {