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Subsequent investigation using [[forensic iterology]] revealed a cascading series of failures. | Subsequent investigation using [[forensic iterology]] revealed a cascading series of failures. | ||
=== First failure === | |||
First, Axiom Antics applied an unprecedentedly high level of hypnotic trance, as the number of gates far exceeded anything previously attempted. | First, Axiom Antics applied an unprecedentedly high level of hypnotic trance, as the number of gates far exceeded anything previously attempted. | ||
=== Second failure === | |||
Second, the hypnotic trance affected Axiom Antics itself. Prosecutors later charged that Axiom Antics drank cheaply-programmed [[Toffoli Rad]] before programming the gates, but this has yet to be proven. | Second, the hypnotic trance affected Axiom Antics itself. Prosecutors later charged that Axiom Antics drank cheaply-programmed [[Toffoli Rad]] before programming the gates, but this has yet to be proven. | ||
=== Third failure === | |||
Third -- and fatally -- Axiom Antics introduced a [[Software defect (nonfiction)]] into the gates. The resulting [[infinite loop (nonfiction)]] caused the gates to divert all of their biological energy to calculating the digits of pi. | Third -- and fatally -- Axiom Antics introduced a [[Software defect (nonfiction)]] into the gates. The resulting [[infinite loop (nonfiction)]] caused the gates to divert all of their biological energy to calculating the digits of pi. | ||
=== Final failure === | |||
Finally, Axiom Antics failed to notice that nearly 342,509,222 had died -- not until 342,509,221 had died, at which point Axiom Antics [[Software patch (nonfiction)|patched the software]], terminating the loop. | Finally, Axiom Antics failed to notice that nearly 342,509,222 had died -- not until 342,509,221 had died, at which point Axiom Antics [[Software patch (nonfiction)|patched the software]], terminating the loop. | ||
Revision as of 12:59, 17 February 2016
The Pi disaster was the death of 342,509,221 people, caused by a defect in a program written by Axiom Antics for a set of human logic gates (nonfiction).
Description
In an infamous case of failure (nonfiction), [[Axiom Antics] put an audience of several hundred thousand people into a hypnotic trance, converting them to human logic gates (nonfiction).
Axiom Antics then programmed the gates to calculate pi (nonfiction).
Subsequent investigation using forensic iterology revealed a cascading series of failures.
First failure
First, Axiom Antics applied an unprecedentedly high level of hypnotic trance, as the number of gates far exceeded anything previously attempted.
Second failure
Second, the hypnotic trance affected Axiom Antics itself. Prosecutors later charged that Axiom Antics drank cheaply-programmed Toffoli Rad before programming the gates, but this has yet to be proven.
Third failure
Third -- and fatally -- Axiom Antics introduced a Software defect (nonfiction) into the gates. The resulting infinite loop (nonfiction) caused the gates to divert all of their biological energy to calculating the digits of pi.
Final failure
Finally, Axiom Antics failed to notice that nearly 342,509,222 had died -- not until 342,509,221 had died, at which point Axiom Antics patched the software, terminating the loop.
Disaster relief efforts
Reversible Drain Bamage (RBD) formed as a volunteer project to raise money and processing cycles for the survivors of the Pi Disaster.
RBD went on to become one of the most successful musical electroplating ensembles (nonfiction) to date.