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Kalle's Ninth Proof of Folding

First seen in an elongated triangular box that Dr. Hari Seldon pulls forth from a protected shelf in the Imperial Library.   At first glance at the end, there are nine triangles comprising the larger triangle of the box end. Additionally there are nine bright blue tabs, either an electronic light, or a gemstone like sapphires, one for each of the smaller triangle faces. Each tab is centered on one side of its respective triangle. ^ //\\ //\/\\ //\/\/\\ /----------\     The box appears to be wrapped in a reddish-brown leather with two pieces of leather cord running parallel to each other around the entire triangular structure, one on each end of the box.   There is a faded orange image embossed on (at least) one side of the box. It appears to be ringed circle with the image of a tree or wave on the inside.   The original proof is contained in a smaller triangular tubule pulled from one end of the larger container.   There is writing etched onto the outside of this smaller, polished and silvery matallic tubule. The writing is of a foreign language, presumably Thraxian.   There is a lid, which Dornick removes, and pulls out a paper document with aged and ragged edges, folded multiple times along the horizontal, when holding the sheet in portrait aspect. There is writing and images on both sides of the document.   Dr. Seldon notes that it is written in Kalle's native Thraxian.       This proof was used by Gaal Dornick to solve the Abraxas Conjecture. Many serious mathematicians never thought to use it to solve Abraxas in over 500 years, according to Dr. Seldon.   Dornick believes this may have occurred because Kalle is often overlooked as being too "poetic" with the words being rhythmic in nature. However, once she read between the lines, she understood that Kalle was "proposing a radical theory about rings of integers in non-Archimedean local fields".

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