'What's your name, by the way?'
'Teri.'
'Terry?'
She spelt it for him. 'But you can call me Miss Teri.'
Rebus smiled. 'I'll assume that's an assumed name. Maybe I'll see you around, Miss Teri.'
Causticity is that sharp and corroding quality, which many substances possess, such as the mineral acids, especially when concentrated, alkalies fixed and volatile, quicklime, arsenic, corrosive sublimate, lunar crystals, butter of antimony, and even most other salts with metallic bases.
I can recall all the small particulars of that disturbing summer night. The blue lamp in front of the face-brick building.
We achieve this by using well-known examples from the number theory pertaining to the continued fractions. Any sequence of natural numbers drawn from the probability distribution of the quotients of the continued fraction corresponding to an irrational number represents a typical sequence, in the sense that almost all sequences of quotients have this distribution.