Pipe gamboge consists of cylindrical pieces, varying from one to three inches in diameter. Some of them appear to have been formed by rolling; but many of them are striated from the impression of the bamboo stems into the hollow of which the gamboge juice has been poured, … Pipe gamboge occurs in all qualities—the finest and the worst specimens of gamboge which I ever saw having this form. … Lump or cake gamboge occurs in masses of several pounds weight. Its quality is inferior to the finest pipe kind.

I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance

The algorithms in 26, 28 yield (up to polylog factors) these nearly optimal precision and Boolean cost bounds for the worst case polynomial rootfinding.

While Hefzur was adjusting, conditions for the Rohingya in Myanmar, where his family was still living, were deteriorating. His parents described villages burning in the distance. They had to go, they informed him.