Did you try primary trigonometry or logarithms founded in remedial calculus?

7 seconds sound clip from the The A-Team - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas (Season 1, Ep. 7) TV Series.

You can hear this line at 00:34:12 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- And they tried to get your system out of you.

- No, not them. But this guy they would bring around. They called him Mr. M.

- Martell.

- He would make me explain my system to him.

- It's not a complicated procedure. I mean, if you understand the coefficients of prime-based numbers in random patterns...

- But I... I guess math wasn't one of his interests.

- Did you try primary trigonometry or logarithms founded in remedial calculus?

- Yes, I did, but he couldn't grasp it.

- Hmm. Oooh, watch out, Woody. They tried to do that to me.

- Sometimes he'd get really angry and start yelling and screaming. I'd think he was gonna hit me.

- But then he'd calm down, and I'd try to explain it to him further, but I don't think he understood what I was saying.

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