Ok, slap me if this has always been covered.
In Jopaga's lab there are a set of books with numbers related to many formulas. Rhue seems to draw meaning from these seemingly meaningless numbers.
The only reason for this I can think of is that the formulas use ingredients from the Pits, and Rhue(in the Venge theory), having being born in the Pits would......understand the numbers......?!?