Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
No, Hardy!â Ramanujan jumped up in bed and exclaimed: âIt is a very interesting number! Itâs the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.â (This is because 1729 = 103 + 93 = 123 + 13.) Ramanujan just naturally knew such things, leaving both proofs and details to others.