Forbidden Ratio
Forbidden Ratio is a mathematical function and supervillain.
Forbidden Ratio and the Gnomon algorithm are mutual arch-enemies.
Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus form a long-standing crime team, based on their common interests.
In the News
September 11, 2018: Signed first edition of Do Not Tease Monster stolen from the private collection of celebrity Peter Giblets by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang, held for ransom.
June 13, 2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.
Physicist and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei, imprisoned on trumped-up charges, uses nail to scratch the equation E pur si muove on dungeon wall; in the process, he discovers a deliberately concealed Gnomon algorithm function which proves his innocence. Although Galileo's accusation that the function was stolen and concealed by the Forbidden Ratio is widely believed to be true, no proof has emerged that the Ratio or its degenerate cases were involved.
1880: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveler Niles Cartouchian uses time crystals (nonfiction) to track down and decompute the Forbidden Ratio.
1946: Mathematician and academic Alice Beta writes a letter to Albert Einstein, warning Einstein that his theories are at risk from the so-called Forbidden Ratio and other criminal mathematical functions.
1900: Mathematician, engineer, and Gnomon algorithm researcher Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne invents a nomogram which detects the Forbidden Ratio.
New crime team pays dividends, Forbidden Ratio praises Gnotilus as "the master of geometry solvent technology."
Halting problem is delicious, says Forbidden Ratio.
Fiction cross-reference
- Geometry solvent
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Gnotilus
- Killer Poke - a software defect for hire, and contract killer for Murder, Incorporated 1.1.
- Mathematician
- Mathematics
- Ratio as allegory for self and other