“Pull my
finger.”
Miss
Manners* #quote
Today the
curtain fell on the most epic play in history. We had to put it back
up and it was such a bother. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The
AfterMath
The war of
numbers took many digits. All across the number line values were
lost. The root of the problem ingrained itself in the very nature of
math and emotion. Numbers began to care about their identity and
their place in their universe. Negatives looked beyond the barrier of
zero to the positive numbers and their more gracious place in
existence. They attacked them and through subtraction absorbed them
into themselves.
If they could
not be positive they would bring the positive numbers into
nothingness. Not all negative numbers became enveloped in this rage.
But without all negative numbers absorbing all positive numbers math
became a paradox. Now after the war counting went 1,2,4,5 as -3
consumed 3.
The Great and
Powerful Variables looked upon the number line and wept. Geometry
began collapsing without algebra. No numbers, no squares, circles,
triangles or anything else.
The Great and
Powerful Variable X looked at the Great and Powerful Variable Y and
spoke with a determined, yet frightened voice. Y never heard him
scared. “Y, we must reset it all. Break math. You become zero and I
will become each number across all the number line.”
The Great and
Powerful Variable Y replied, “But the risks...the mathematics we
have here are broken now. But dividing everything by zero could
destroy it all!”
The Great and
Powerful X yelled, “Y! I'd rather all existence become destroyed
then live in a broken world!”
So the two
variables divided and divided. All of math became a strange
non-answer. But out of the aftermath of a non-answer a new number
line was born. The only accompaniment to nothing is everything and so
the calculations spared the The Great Variables and the numbers they
were sworn to protect.
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