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After a few more centuries, perhaps the poorest billion will even be able to afford the $10.00 buffet.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
A big advantage of the serial-number approach to identity is that things stay the same even as they change.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
The fact is, winding and dusting and fixing somebody else's clock is boring.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
The fact that randomness requires a physical rather than a mathematical source is noted by almost everyone who writes on the subject, and yet the oddity of this situation is not much remarked.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
How can we measure the effects if we can't even count the dead to the nearest million?
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
I'm not a gambling person, but I've been around long enough and I know how to play it.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
I'm not a mathematician, but I've been hanging around with some of them long enough to know how the game is played.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
It's all done with gears. Also pinions, snails, arbors; pawls and ratchets; and cam followers; cables, levers, bell cranks, and pivots.
Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008)
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