Ok, so see here. Ryden loved studying, she really did, but what she loved MOST was interesting questions that bothered her long after they were asked.

She had a feeling this one would be an addition to those questions.

As she took her time to think, she heard a person in the class ask to, ahem, "discuss the classwork" with them. Pffft. Who even asks those questions? They were all discussing the classwork with everyone. Rolling her eyes, Ryden glared at the pipsqueak and continued thinking for a few moments before sighing and raising her hand.

"Personally, I do not see the relevance of the L thing. I mean, how is it contributing to the calculation, assuming that this calculation is in fact correct. And how do you know that they are all only times one? There's those things... powers, no? When there are things that are squared and cubes and stuff," she said, remembering her advanced maths private teacher talk about them. "So," she continued, "how do we know that the fraction of, let's say, the average of stars forming isn't a lot more influential than L?"

"And here's another one; technically, if fi doesn't exist on a planet, then fc couldn't ever ever happen. They're all dependable on each other, but those two the most," she said, speaking quickly so that she wouldn't lose her track of thought, which happened way too often for her liking. "Why is fi so important, in the end? One could just take fl and fc and be done with it, no?"

There was one more thing too, but Ryden didn't really feel like sharing yet... The thought needed to stew in her head as it was something she thought the equation kind of needed - but it sounded rather childish even to her own ears. Lowering her hand, she settled down to listen to the rest of the class, jotting her own little ideas on her parchment. If this got into a heated debate, then she could use them as back up. Hehe.