In the early 1980s there was a sweeping scare regarding the coming ice age. There was a fear of polar transforms, but nobody even saw the bipolar transforms coming instead. The very concept of polar transforms was enough to chills spines, even among the Mathemagicians Guild. Only those prone to hyperbolic sines and cosines were prepared for the coming chaos of the bipolar system. Entire camps of mathemagicians had their foci split between the two potential options. Some thought that hyperbola might save the day, but others insisted that there were several things that had ellipsed their colleagues attentions. It turns out everyone was wrong. There was no reason to be alarmed, the was no great rectilinear catastrophe looming. The grid system still worked, and the arcs were not permanent. The sines and their cosines had not taken full control of the system, and since they had only been sines of chaos, they didn't cooperate well with each other. There was no grand polar vertex coming to freeze the world after all, just several independent messes spread all over Laplace.

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