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The Coefficient of Frustration
Across the library, Missy was pretending to read a book about horses while actually watching a senior cheerleader named Tiffany apply lip gloss. Georgie was trying to convince the boy next to him that he’d once shaken hands with Nolan Ryan. And Mary Cooper, who had volunteered as a library aide, was just trying to keep her three children from creating a scene that would get her excommunicated from the PTA.
“Impossible,” he whispered.
The fluorescent hum of the Medford High library was Sheldon Cooper’s second-favorite sound, right after the click of a well-made toggle switch. He was hunched over a Texas Instruments TI-30, his brow furrowed with the unique intensity of a boy who had just discovered a flaw in the universe.
Tiffany sighed and made it ten.
Sheldon looked up from his plate of spaghetti. “I debated the epistemological limits of consumer electronics and won. Also, grape jelly is a worthy adversary.”
“Principal Petersen, my Texas Instruments TI-30 is displaying a truncated decimal. I require an atomic clock-calibrated stopwatch and a Cray-1 supercomputer to verify its processing error.” young sheldon s02e18 720p web-dl
“Sheldon, honey, just round it,” Mary whispered, reshelving a copy of Moby Dick .