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It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tends to be invented in hot countries It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels, who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations

It's not generally realised that camels have a natural aptitude for advanced mathematics, particularly where they involve ballistics This evolved as a survival trait, in the same way as a hue and a dolphin's renowned ability to save drowning swiht be observed and commented upon adversely by other humans

The fact is that caent than dolphins[21]

They are so hter that they soon realised that the ent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes cla id by zoologists, is to make bloody certain huo plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain a prodded with sticks, allowed the and the chance to spit in a huet aith it

And this particular camel, the result of millions of years of selective evolution to produce a creature that could count the grains of sand it alking over, and close its nostrils at will, and survive under the broiling sun for many days without water, was called You Bastard

And he was, in fact, the greatest mathe: there see frorees by the look of it How interesting I wonder what's causing it? Let V equal 3 Let Tau equal Chi/4 cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Sinary spin co-efficients

Ptraci hit hiet a ht: Therefore H to the enabling power equals V/s cudcudcud Thus in hypersyllogic notation

Teppic looked behind hie distortions in the landscape see down, and Dios was

Dios was striding out of the palace, and had actually uards whose fear of disobedience overcame the terror of the mysteriously distorted world

You Bastard stood stoically chewingcudcudcud which gives us an interesting shortening oscillation What would be the period of this? Let period = x cudcudcud Let t = time Let initial period

Ptraci bounced up and down on his neck and kicked hard with her heels, an action which would have caused any anthropoid ainst the wall

'It won't ht his hand down as hard as he could on You Bastard's hide, raising a cloud of dust and deadening every nerve in his fingers It was like hitting a large sack full of coathangers

'Come on,' he muttered

Dios raised a hand

'Halt, in the na!' he shouted

An arrow thudded into You Bastard's huives us ouch314 seconds

You Bastard turned his long neck around His great hairy eyebrowscurves as his yellow eyes narrowed and took a fix on the high priest, and he put aside the interesting probleed up the fao:

Let range equal forty-one feet Let windspeed equal 2 Vector one-eight cud Let glutinosity equal 7

Teppic drew a throwing knife

Dios took a deep breath He's going to order theht Into be shot

Angle two-five, cud Fire

It was a ob of cud had commendable lift and spin and hit with a sound like, a sound like half a pound of se so else it could sound like

The silence that folloas by way of being a standing ovation

The landscape began to distort again This was clearly not a place to linger You Bastard looked down at his front legs

Let legs equal four

He lumbered into a run Camels apparently have more knees than any other creature and You Bastard ran like a steales to the direction of estive noises

'Bloody stupid animal,' muttered Ptraci, as they jolted away froot the idea'

gauge-invariant repetition rate of 35/z What's she talking about, Bloody Stupid lives over in Tsort

Though they swung through the air as though jointed with bad elastic You Bastard's legs covered a lot of ground, and already they were bouncing through the sleeping packed-earth streets of the city

'It's starting again, isn't it?' said Ptraci 'I' to shut my eyes'

Teppic nodded The firebrick-hot houses around theain, and the road was rising and falling in a way that solid land had no right to adopt

'It's like the sea,' he said

'I can't see anything,' said Ptraci firmly

'I mean the sea The ocean You know Waves'

'I've heard about it Is anyone chasing us?'

Teppic turned in the saddle 'Not that I can make out,' he said 'It looks as-'

Fro, low bulk of the palace and across the river to the Great Pyramid itself It was almost hidden in dark clouds, but what he could see of it was definitely wrong He knew it had four sides, and he could see all eight of the in and out of focus, which he felt instinctively was a dangerous thing for several e to be a long ay from it Even a dumb creature like the camel seemed to have the sa:Delta squared Thus, diree transformation in Chi(16/x/pu)t for a K-bundle of any three invariables Or four minutes, plus or reat pads of his feet

Let speed equal gallop

'How did you make it do that?' said Teppic

'I didn't! It's doing it by itself! Hang on!'

This wasn't easy Teppic had saddled the calected the harness Ptraci had handfuls of ca on to All he had was handfuls of Ptraci No matter where he tried to put his hands, they encountered war education had prepared hi in Ptraci's obviously had Her long hair whipped his face and sly of rare perfuht?' he shouted above the wind