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1 " The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. "
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
2 " The Planeswalker knowYOu take the card from the libraryAnd bury it when you're done.On the path, you face history.Walk the path, do the math:Start with the prime numbers under 100Whose digits give you 10.Choose the happy median.Add it to: The square root of The cube of five divided byThe sum of 3 and 2. "
― Megan Frazer Blakemore , The Friendship Riddle
3 " Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators. "
― Ann Patchett , The Magician's Assistant
4 " The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. "
