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.
There are a number of infinite series and products, the most famous of which is probably: Ï = 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 - 4/11 + 4/13 - ... The equality only holds in the limit. If you stop the calculation at a finite number of terms, the result will be off.