I mean lookswise. Is he gorgeous, or a gorgon, or somewhere in between?

I have always considered Pascal's Wager a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

The finishing operations consisted of shearing the nap from the cloth, and frizzing, or cottoning, the surface, by pressing with hot irons.

The assertion about the value of the zeta function at negative integers then comes immediately from the definition of the Bernoulli numbers in terms of the coefficients of a power series, namely t/(eᵗ-1)=∑ₙ₌₀ ᪲B_n(tⁿ)/(n!)