User blog comment:Alemagno12/Brain-Flak Challenge/@comment-2601:282:8302:3D00:B1F5:4873:B995:64A5-20180920175625

Interesting question! Are you defining *flak(n)* as the largest number that 2n characters of brain-flak can *push* or *evaluate to*? Your smaller examples all evaluate to the given number, but your larger examples push the given number. Which means that your larger examples could be way bigger. For example, your example for `flak(26)` could be written in 50 characters, making a significantly larger value for `flak(25)`. If you remove the outer layer of `<>`, you get `((((){}){}))({}<>){({}[])<>(({}){})<>}<>`. If you're just trying to evaluate to a particular number, I'm sure it could be even bigger.

Also, you could look on this page, since it's a pretty similar topic. Might give you some better ideas.