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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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• A serious public debate about the validity of astrology?
  A serious believer in the White House? Two of them?...
• TeX /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful macro-based text formatter written by Donald E.
  Knuth, very popular in the computer-science community (it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, even at many Unix installations)....