Pi disaster
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).
"To the last digit"
Axiom Antics then programmed the gates to calculate pi (nonfiction) "to the last digit (nonfiction)".
Investigation
Thinking about the event is subject Halting problem (nonfiction) hazards.
Subsequent investigation using forensic iterology explained the Pi disaster in considerable detail, but also resulted in the death of four investigators, permanent insanity of the support staff, and possible evaporation of universal constants.
The Pi disaster occured as 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
Asclepius Myrmidon
Asclepius Myrmidon provided volunteer medical and post-traumatic counseling services.
Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo wrote a prize-winning series about the Pi disaster.
Fiction cross-reference
- Asclepius Myrmidon
- Axiom Antics
- Dalton Trumbo
- Evaporation of universal constants
- Extract of Radium
- Toffoli Rad
- Turing friend