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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #TheTrulyLonelistNumber

“2+2=5”
School House Rock* #quote

Today I went to Wonderland, and had a nice party because by an amazing coincidence it was my unbirthday! Amazing huh? Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Truly Loneliest Number

        One isn't the loneliest number. One is quite popular actually. He's number one! First place! The hit single! He couldn't be better off. He smiles all day and could laugh and mock the unpopular numbers. Even negative one, his pessimistic brother loves him. (It's a stereotype that negative numbers are pessimists.)
       No, the loneliest number is called i by mathematicians. That little italicized letter stands for the square root of negative one. An imaginary number. How lonely is a number when it's imaginary? Why the only way more imaginary numbers happen is by multiplying it by that one. So it can only be with itself. Mathematics is a strange place, the number so lonely it can only be with itself.
      Well zero is also real and imaginary, but who wants to hang out with him? He's nothing to talk about.

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