Angel Isle

FOOTNOTES

^*1 The prestige of course derives from the fact that the field to which the mathematics is applied is magic.

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^**2 We are more familiar with this sort of thing than we realize. It is impossible to imagine the square root of minus one, but formulae that involve it can have important practical results, such as the atom bomb.

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^*3 It is perhaps worth noting that we have intuitively designated seven as the magical number.

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^**4 In pre-Fodaran thaumaturgy wild magic was thought to be released whenever someone died. This is only partly true. It can come from other sources, including touching points, but the death of any living creature involves the departure of the individual anima into hyperspace, with a compensating flow of energy in the reverse direction.

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