I just did a word count on the novel I (to all intents and purposes) started writing yesterday. Here's what WordPerfect told me:

Words:  1000
Sentences:  64
Two perfect cubes. I'll bet that doesn't happen again for the remainder of the book.
There are plenty of sources that list the distances of various stars from Earth, but does anyone know of a source for looking up the distances of stars from one another? If not, I may have to dust off some spherical geometry that I would rather leave in its rusty box.

Specifically, I need to know the distance between Tau Ceti and Van Maanen's Star.


Update:  I found the specific answer I needed—Tau Ceti and Van Maanen's Star are 6.2 light-years apart—but I'd still be happy to be pointed toward a more general resource.
Hey, kids! Wondering why you should bother studying science and math? So you can work out the formula to describe the perfect bacon butty!

N = C + {fb(cm) · fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc · ta
Duh.

Tomorrow we'll derive a formula to determine how many licks it takes to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.
You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!
If The Simpsons had been around when I was in high school, my math teacher Mr. Nelson might have given us problems like this.
Happy Pi Approximation Day! One version of it, anyway.

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