Contributed by
Sarah-Marie Belcastro "The story is incomplete! Only three of the
five dialogs are printed, after which is written (To be continued. I
searched subsequent issues of Scripta Mathematica, but found no followup;
Google didn't find any reference to the ending; finally, I discovered that
the Karapetoff died in 1948 (this was published in 1947) so perhaps he
never completed the manuscript. He wrote another story, Are You Plus or
Minus? published in the Saturday Evening Post, v200 #22 p.146, Nov 26,
1927, but I haven't had a chance to get it from microform at the library yet."
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