Fix _ACTC_ChildNum documentation and use it more often in the code #1666
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The changes in this pull request were suggested by @evtedeschi3 in issue #1665.
Hopefully the new documentation is less confusing and certainly the code is more accurately parameterized.
These changes have no effect on current-law tax results, but the more thorough parameterization of the ACTC function could cause reforms that change
_ACTC_ChildNum
to produce slightly different (and more accurate) results than they did before these changes.@MattHJensen @feenberg @Amy-Xu @andersonfrailey @hdoupe @codykallen @evtedeschi3