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6/13
“Let me
just talk this out with you: The starfish cycles of birth and death that I have
tabulated and the overall population ODE can be modeled by a Fourier series
meaning the total number of starfish base on time, t, of course, is loosely
based on an exponential function dependent on the initial population, but
here’s what interesting: the birth rates that I have recorded can be modeled by
a triangle wave, which is where the Fourier comes in. It appears that the
number of births per unit time rises until a point, the end of a period, where
the rate drops to zero and then eventually rises again. The wave is half
rectified, of course. Oh ho! We can’t have a negative birth rate, now can we? No,
starfish crawling back into their genetic lineage is not allowed. At least,
I’ve yet to see it. Don’t you think it’s fascinating?”
Alphus
gazed into her eyes, or he tried to at least. Gauss Anne was so excited that
she kept gesturing very close to his face and tracing invisible numbers and
symbols onto the table. When he wasn’t flinching, Alphus made prolonged eye
contact with the tops of her eyebrows.
Gauss Anne
Worlby had not let a lack of school get in the way of her education. In fact,
school would probably have hindered her learning experience. She had no patience
for the distraction of her peers or for the dull hours spent sitting in a
classroom. Like Alphus, Gauss Anne was immensely preoccupied, but her interest
in animals and rocks stemmed from their potential as subjects of study and not
at all as companions. She would not enter their world as a follower waiting to
be initiated but as a Bazaov with notebook in hand. She wanted to get at
nature’s secrets, and the only relationships she was interested in were ones
like the speed of light’s relation to the medium through which it traveled or a
movement’s relationship to the electrical impulse coming from the brain.
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