"Certainly
my troops must consist of
numbers or they can have no existence at all. But then, what
are these numbers? There is a riddle..."
- -- Lady Ada Byron, in The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling
Sextets
[sex and mathematics]
[you can't prove nothin']
Nikolai comes to a conclusion in his calculations, circling it with a flourish. "Ah! Eat times gnaw over Pie Arr widdle squared is the subdivision exponent of tailcurl plus or minus two to the writhing power!"