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kqrlast Friday at 5:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

Accounting is a huge part of it. Sometimes claims are not fully resolved for decades, and the books for that policy hypothetically have to be kept open for as long. This must be kept correct, but is not computationally heavy.

Computing total exposures and possible loss distributions are things which can be more computationally heavy. It includes grouping together similar policies which is multiplicative in complexity.