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"That's high They're two lucky lucky guys"

"Yes"

"But relative to ere doing when the ship picked them up"

Trillian punched up the figures They shoo-to-the power-of-Infinity-minus-one (an irrational nu in Improbability physics)

"it's pretty low," continued Zaphod with a slight whistle

"Yes," agreed Trillian, and looked at him quizzically

"That's one big whack of I pretty iot to show up on the balance sheet if it's all going to add up into a pretty sum"

Zaphod scribbled a few sums, crossed them out and threw the pencil away

"Bat's dots, I can't work it out"

"Well?"

Zaphod knocked his two heads together in irritation and gritted his teeth

"OK," he said "Computer!"

The voice circuits sprang to life again

"Why hello there!" they said (ticker tape, ticker tape) "All I want to do is make your day nicer and nicer and nicer"

"Yeah well shut up and work so out for me"

"Sure thing," chattered the computer, "you want a probability forecast based on"

"Improbability data, yeah"

"OK," the co little notion Did you realize that overned by telephone numbers?"

A pained look crawled across one of Zaphod's faces and on to the other one

"Have you flipped?" he said

"No, but you hen I tell you that"

Trillian gasped She scrabbled at the buttons on the Iht path screen

"Telephone nu say telephone number?"

Numbers flashed up on the screen

The computer had paused politely, but now it continued

"What I was about to say was that"

"Don't bother, please," said Trillian

"Look, what is this?" said Zaphod

"I don't know," said Trillian, "but those aliens--they're on the way up to the bridge with that wretched robot Can we pick them up on any monitor cameras?"

Chapter 13

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still

"and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side"

"No?" said Arthur gri beside him "Really?"

"Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens"

"I can iine"

Vague whistling and hu fro to himself, "Zaphod Beeblebrox"

Suddenly Marvin stopped, and held up a hand

"You knohat's happened now, of course?"

"No, what?" said Arthur, who didn't want to know

"We've arrived at another of those doors"

There was a sliding door let into the side of the corridor Marvin eyed it suspiciously

"Well?" said Ford ih?"

"Do we go through?" e I was told to take you to the bridge Probably the highest demand that will be made on my intellectual capacities today, I shouldn't wonder"

Sloith great loathing, he stepped towards the door, like a hunter stalking his prey Suddenly it slid open