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“You can tell that when me and Rondo are ciphering through our Rolodex of mental basketball capacity that those guys are like, ‘OK, what are you all talking about?’”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Now this is what I call 'ciphering' arter human natur', while figures are ciphering arter the 'assistant.'

From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler