" He was doing his academic rambling thing again. "You'll let me run some calculations on you, Lady Manami, won't you?"
"Will they hurt?"
"Well, there are some who find the mere presence of advanced mathematical equations painful, but I don't think that you'll be materially damaged in any physical manner. Oh! Can I ask how the relative densities affect buoyancy? I mean to say, do kitsune bob something fierce? "

― Gail Carriger , Reticence (The Custard Protocol #4)