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Ice Sleep Quickly

Ice Sleep Quickly... Slowly counting backwards from one hundred if restless, yet most every night/early morning, when tiredness defeats ability to remain alert though rarely these days no difficulty to dream way before mentally mouthing the number zero, a segue way into unconscious state disengages awareness, nor does yours truly recount numb burr, nor REM member upon awakening hours later how far from first triple digit to nought, I ceased noiselessly iterated theoretical string of symbols (representing whole sum quantity), the likes linkedin to the Hindu-Arabic numeral cyst- stem attributed to two Indian mathematicians awk credited with developing mode to abstract former lee bird den some assignation expressing a short shorthand to conveniently represent a numerical value, honor belongs to Aryabhata of Kushuma- pura developed the place-value notation in the fifth century, and about one hundred years later Brahmagupta introduced important symbol for zero, without such (now obvious) methodology, this nocturnal primate, would most likely resort to awkward, bulky, clumsy, et cetera alternative, sans Roman numerals silently with eyelids shut tight, thus imagine if ye will this sir soundlessly enunciating c, xcix, xcviii...praying to dog never reaching the lowest solitary i, cuz this mister, he would never be accountable waking bolt upright resembling a zombie emitting nought a peep, cuz this suddenly duped frenzied hotmail, would have zero choice!

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