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Ashwin Nanjappa's note : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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1	"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. [...] prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."	Chapters in the book are numbered in prime numbers. This is the reason Christopher gives for this. (No page number.)
2	The book's protagonist solves mathematical equations and puzzles in his head when he's emotionally disturbed to make that feeling go away. One of these is the Conway's Soldiers. The intrigue in this puzzle is that no matter how big a board or how large the number of soldiers you start out with, you discover that you can't move beyond 4 rows.	(No page number.)
3	And then there was no one else in front of the window and I said to the man behind the window, "I want to go to London," [...] And the man said, "Single or return?" And I said, "What does single or return mean?" And he said, "Do you want to go one way, or do you want to go and come back?" And I said, "I want to stay there when I get there." And he said, "For how long?" And I said, "Until I go to university." And he said, "Single, then," and then he said, "That'll be £32."	Christopher is at a train station ticket counter. He is trying to buy a ticket to London. He's never been to a train station before in his life. (No page number.)

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"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. [...] prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

Chapters in the book are numbered in prime numbers. This is the reason Christopher gives for this.

(No page number.)

The book's protagonist solves mathematical equations and puzzles in his head when he's emotionally disturbed to make that feeling go away. One of these is the Conway's Soldiers. The intrigue in this puzzle is that no matter how big a board or how large the number of soldiers you start out with, you discover that you can't move beyond 4 rows.

(No page number.)

And then there was no one else in front of the window and I said to the man behind the window, "I want to go to London," [...]
And the man said, "Single or return?"
And I said, "What does single or return mean?"
And he said, "Do you want to go one way, or do you want to go and come back?"
And I said, "I want to stay there when I get there."
And he said, "For how long?"
And I said, "Until I go to university."
And he said, "Single, then," and then he said, "That'll be £32."

Christopher is at a train station ticket counter. He is trying to buy a ticket to London. He's never been to a train station before in his life.

(No page number.)

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