Which statement from The Number Devil best reveals that the author is using the number devil's character to promote a positive view of mathematics?

"Most genuine mathematicians are bad at sums. Besides, they have no time to waste on them. That's what pocket calculators are for."
"You need one thing and one thing only: one. With one—I am speaking of the numeral, of course—you can do almost anything."
"Just as there are infinitely large numbers, there are infinitely small numbers. And an infinite number of infinitely small numbers."
"I'm only doing it for you! You're the one who's afraid of numbers. You're the one who wants everything simple so you won't get mixed up."

Myths often function as a connection to the , or the customs and beliefs, of a group of people.

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit

Which statement best describes thomas paines usesof evidence in the passage the crisis no. 1?