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'''Axiom Antics''' is a travelling [[mathematical carnival]].
'''Axiom Antics''' is a travelling mathematical carnival associated with [[Carnevale Tenebre]].


== Pi disaster ==
The [[Pi disaster]] was the death of 342,509,221 people, caused by a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|defect]] in a program written by Axiom Antics for a set of [[Human logic gate (nonfiction)|human logic gates]].


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 gate (nonfiction)|human logic gates (nonfiction)]].
== In the News ==


Axiom Antics then programmed the gates to calculate [[pi (nonfiction)]].
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File:Dinosaur studying mathematics.jpg|link=Mathematics|Dinosaur reviews [[Mathematics]], discovers unanswered questions.
Subsequent investigation using [[forensic iterology]] revealed a cascading series of failures.
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First, Axiom Antics applied an unprecedentedly high level of hypnotic trance, as the number of gates far exceeded anything previously attempted.
 
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 -- and fatally -- Axiom Antics introduced a [[Software defect (nonfiction)]] into the gates.  The resulting infinite loop caused the gates to divert all of their biological energy to calculating the digits of pi.


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Axiom]]
* [[Carnevale Tenebre]]
* [[Hey Rubric]]
* [[Gnomon Algorithm]]
* [[Mathematical clown]]
* [[Human Flea Circus]]
* [[Mathematical carnival]]
* [[Mathematics]]
* [[Mathematician]]
* [[Pi disaster]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Axiom Antics (nonfiction)]]
* [[Human logic gate (nonfiction)]]
 
[[Category:Mathematics]]

Latest revision as of 12:12, 21 June 2016

Axiom Antics is a travelling mathematical carnival associated with Carnevale Tenebre.

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.

In the News

  • Dinosaur reviews Mathematics, discovers unanswered questions.

    Dinosaur reviews Mathematics, discovers unanswered questions.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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