you see , space calculators were rather common finds in the grilled cheese nebula , and the triangles had perfected the manipulation of these calculators so that they could use any combination of addition , subtraction , multiplication , division , and squaring , in addition to a whole gallimaufry of mathematical functions to travel anywhere in time or space and between an infinite amount of dimensions and universes , and as such , they had accumulated vast stores of knowledge , which they held fast within their one hundred and eighty degrees .