>> ...I can't *believe* you robbed me of the opportunity to say "what do 
>> you get if your multiply six by nine?" :-o
> 
> Sorry I was thinking of a different book, in this case a Jasper Fforde 
> dealing with Nextian mathematics that does allow you to work out whether 
> the answer 9 is derived from 3+6 or 3*3, or something else entirely.

That sounds like an "interesting" mathematical system. (And not an 
entirely implausible one, actually.)

By the way... 6 * 9 = 54? I'm confused now! o_O

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