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San Antonio, January, 1993 |
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A mathematician left the convention focused on 9, the digit that sits in the billionth decimal place of pi, ratio of circumference to width of the yellow circle that parted the clouds as she strolled down Commerce Street to the Rio Rio Café for lunch and a
beer. |
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On fire with jalapeños she went shopping for a souvenir. She bought earrings — red-red plastic peppers with green stems. |
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She said, "Hot peppers are like mathematics — with strong flavor that takes over what they enter." |