Professor Fox nodded. "Excellent answer Ms. Rey. Though, I would use the term change and decay, not decadence. That has a certain negative connotation, and this business about positive and negative aspects of numbers doesn't really fit in with contemporary applied Arithmancy. At any rate, it was a good answer. Now does anyone else have any questions or comments or additions concerning last lesson? If not, then we will move on and I will answer the questions that students submitted in their previous homework. Those of you who have not submitted it, you have until the 12 AM on the 24th."
He then wrote carefully on the board:
Identity numbers - Numbers that through one of the four arithmetic operations return the identity of the number they are paired with.
Zeroeth Theorem of Arithmancy - All magic tends towards decay; save the exceptions covered in higher theorems.
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