"Y-yeah," Gor answered in his self-conscious way. "I g-guess I know how you feel. There's a complex logarithm with an inverse arctangent fraction containing multiple variables -- it's actually a variation on Gauss -- that I've been working on for the last three years. I guess I hate it when people offer to help too." It was kind of his pet project...and, come to think of it, their captors had left the equation at home.