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• The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was thi
  Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe....
• The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there
  but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth....
• math-out n. [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible.
  This may be a device for concealing the fact that it is actually content-free....
• math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n.
  A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible....
• This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was thi
  most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time....
• There is one comforting conclusion which is easy for a real mathematician.
  Real mathematics has no effects on war. No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years....
• Okay," the computer continued. "Here's an interesting little notion.
  Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?...
• Bistromathics is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers.
  Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants....
• The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...