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

RBD

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.

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
• Reversible Drain Bamage
• Toffoli Rad
• Turing friend

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Musical electroplating ensemble (nonfiction)

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Failure (nonfiction)
• Human logic gate (nonfiction)
• Pi (nonfiction)
• Software defect (nonfiction)
• Software patch (nonfiction)
• Volunteer human logic gate (nonfiction)