After futher inspection it's apparent that I had completely misunderstood the task

That's right, silly me, thinking that we will actually make a practical lesson on the topic we just barely touched on lectures. Of course we will get 10 times harder abomination that seems to be a random set of mathematical rules that I cannot even properly imagine so I assumed it was a complex way of saying about tge thing we actually learned about, until one of groupmates said about it