"9:13. Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache."
Yes, like I said, the story is a pretty standard conceit.
I'm impressed just how much, however, that you mentioning that caused me to mentally be back in the pete's sophomore dorm listening to the soundtrack...
What's nice about this thing is the stuff in the thought bubbles. It made me wonder how I would draw my thinking about my own research. Way better than the math-ish mutterings in Pi, anyway.
"Why don't you just try all 216-digit numbers?" -- Maximillian Cohen, number theorist.
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I'm impressed just how much, however, that you mentioning that caused me to mentally be back in the pete's sophomore dorm listening to the soundtrack...
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"Why don't you just try all 216-digit numbers?" -- Maximillian Cohen, number theorist.
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