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 ## Trechos
 
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-    Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
-    And every vector dreams of matrices.
-    Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
-    It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
-                    -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
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     Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
     Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
     Their indices bedecked from one to n,