#five integer

[chococrepes-art]

Doodling with the markers that my aunt gave me as a gift for Christmas

I doodled my bfdi algebralien gijinka's/humanizations

[urfavisananimegirl]

perhaps five integer from bfb,..,. Perhaps

Five Integer (Battle for BFB) is an Anime Girl!

[oneinteger-daily]

day five!

im on time for this one guys. Clap.

[knightmareaceblue]

Cyberweek 2024 Day Five: Crossover

Pfft, I've been on an AvA kick recently, so I guess it's not too surprising that I chose this. On one hand, this crossover works well in theory. The stick figures are all fast, kinetic learners and really good at demonstrating their earned skills and knowledge.

On the other hand, the sheer tonal dissonance is hilarious.

[kuroharukawada]

Okay, headcanon time.

Five and Four are siblings. Not by blood relation, obvs, rather Five was assigned by Infinity (who I hc as a parental figure for all the algebraliens, because, well, he created them) to be Four's big brother mentor when he was just a baby. Four has always been a chaotic person loving to cause mischief so Five had to discipline him all the time. This also the reason why he is so sarcastic and cares about rules more than anything, Four contributed to this. Although it was Five from whom Four inherited the habit of being a control freak.

Also, Five and Infinity were the only 2 people Four actually liked in this youngest days. The others? He just screeched at them the moment they tried to interact with him.

[vexwerewolf]

Doesn't the existence of MONIST-1 and MONIST-2 Imply the existence of a MONIST-0?

Normally I'd say no, because enumeration systems that are meant to be read by humans almost always label the first item as 1. 0 is meant to represent an absence of items, and enumerating an item as 0 will feel instinctively unintuitive to a lot of people.

The main reason you would enumerate from 0 is because you're programming and your integer space always starts there (00000000 for an 8-bit register, 0000000000000000 for a 16-bit register, 00000000000000000000000000000000 for a 32-bit register, etc.).

However, MONIST-class entities are reality-warping higher-order lifeforms that seem to warp not only the laws of physical reality but also of information. RA/MONIST-1 appears to have been created/manifested/summoned/revealed simply by the Five Voices thinking about it.

Consider this: it might be quite important for information preservation that MONIST-1 is always assigned integer 00000001 in any 8-bit register that refers to them, MONIST-2 assigned integer 00000010, and so on. This would suggest that 00000000 is the unique identifier of a dummy entry, padding to ensure that MONIST-1 and MONIST-2 get the correct reference number.

But the problem when you're dealing with psychoactive higher-dimensional entities is that if you joke "there is no MONIST-0" long enough...

[officeshelpdesk]

The five senses: licking, fingering, hearing, agony, ectoplasm

The types of matter: there, not there

Types of integers: 3

[bfdiredux]

Algebraliens

Algebraliens are funny things but I suppose it's no shock that they exist! If we can have living objects, we can have living math.

They are all eccentric and on some level, quite chaotic. Some algebraliens are a dim sort of chaotic and others thrive off of chaos.

Algebraliens come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. They also have skin. They prooobably have blood and muscle too. I considered bones, but...

These things have no bones.

Gender is NOT a thing to Algebraliens!! They simply don't have it. They vibe with pronouns, though. (Remember: pronouns ≠ gender) You'll find that Algebraliens may have preferred pronouns but they are generally chill-- you may get gently told about the preferences but that's as far as most go.

Some confirmed pronouns--

Zero - He/they (the one with the hat!)

One - She/they

Two - They/them

Four - He/they

Five - He/they

Six - He/she/they

Seven - They/them

Eight - They/he

Nine - Any/all

Ten - They/It

Fourteen - He/him

Fifteen - She/her

Two Thousand, Seven Hundred, Sixty-Three(2763 from here on out) - It/its

X - They/any

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ADAPTATIONS!

Heat Resistance - An algebralien is able to withstand incredibly high temperatures and lava. Somehow. X can be seen during the challenge to find their emeralds drifting through lava(likely unharmed due to their power) and Two, during the 2763000 subscriber special, merely had their skin burnt by lava.

Durability & Invulnerability - Algebraliens have skin that is difficult to penetrate. They're quite malleable. You are going to need tremendous force and effort to pierce their skin and make them bleed. They're also just... really difficult to kill.

I don't know what this is called - Your biggest concern as an algebralien would be dehydration although you could go an extended period of time without water and even longer without food. An algebralien not eating or drinking enough will eventually start to feel the side effects.

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If an algebralien does not take care of themself, there are consequences.

The aforementioned side effects include worse physical health but also weakened power.

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POWERS!

You could say the adaptations mentioned above are powers but! By algebralien standards, they aren't.

It's not known where powers originate from, nor is it known why/how it exists-- but it does. The current power scale between algabraliens looks something like this:

2763 > Two > One > Four and X > Literally everyone else

2763 and Two would be on the same level if it weren't for 2763's natural ability to suppress algebralien power. The further away an algebralien is from 2763, the more their power returns.

One is just below Two. She plans to change that, though.

Four and X are the embodiment of algebralien chaos.

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EVERY algebralien has their own little pocket dimension.

They can project or transport themselves into their pocket dimension and powerful algebraliens like Four can transport items into their dimension. They also have total control over their domain-- and I mean total. They can shape it to their will, break the laws of physics, and bend its reality. This does mean an algebralien can trap another in their domain if they play their cards right.

The algebraliens who live primarily at the Equation Playground have doorways to their pocket dimensions that connect to the Playground in case of emergency. These doorways can be used, destroyed, materialized and dematerialized, ecetera, all depending on what the user wants.

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FUSION!!!

By adding or multiplying, integers can fuse together or unfuse. It takes a lot of willpower from one side to keep from unfusing if the other is against it.

By subtracting, you can whittle a number down to smaller numbers. They have to be manually added together again to refuse and act as a hive mind.

You can kill an integer by division if you use a zero. However, trying to divide powerful integers by zero will instead leave their soul/spirit inside of the zero instead.

Any symbol or object can be used for this process as long as at least one integer is involved.

[physicallyimprobable]

what's the 3-dimensional number thing?

Well I'm glad you asked! For those confused, this is referring to my claim that "my favorite multiplication equation is 3 × 5 = 15 because it's the reason you can't make a three-dimensional number system" from back in this post. Now, this is gonna be a bit of a journey, so buckle up.

Part One: Numbers in Space

First of all, what do I mean by a three-dimensional number system? We say that the complex numbers are two-dimensional, and that the quaternions are four-dimensional, but what do we mean by these things? There's a few potential answers to this question, but for our purposes we'll take the following narrative:

Complex numbers can be written in the form (a+bi), where a and b are real numbers. For the variable-averse, this just means we have things like (3+6i) and (5-2i) and (-8+3i). Some amount of "units" (that is, ones), and some amount of i's.

Most people are happy to stop here and say "well, there's two numbers that you're using, so that's two dimensions, ho hum". I think that's underselling it, though, since there's something nontrivial and super cool happening here. See, each complex number has an "absolute value", which is its distance from zero. If you imagine "3+6i" to mean "three meters East and six meters North", then the distance to that point will be 6.708 meters. We say the absolute value of (3+6i), which is written like |3+6i|, is equal to 6.708. Similarly, interpreting "5-2i" to mean "five meters East and two meters South" we get that |5-2i| = 5.385.

The neat thing about this is that absolute values multiply really nicely. For example, the two numbers above multiply to give (3+6i) × (5-2i) = (27+24i) which has a length of 36.124. What's impressive is that this length is the product of our original lengths: 36.124 = 6.708 × 5.385. (Okay technically this is not true due to rounding but for the full values it is true.)

This is what we're going to say is necessary to for a number system to accurately represent a space. You need the numbers to have lengths corresponding to actual lengths in space, and you need those lengths to be "multiplicative", which just means it does the thing we just saw. (That is, when you multiply two numbers, their lengths are multiplied as well.)

There's still of course the question of what "actual lengths in space" means, but we can just use the usual Euclidean method of measurement. So, |3+6i| = √(3²+6²) and |5-2i| = √(5²+2²). This extends directly to the quaternions, which are written as (a+bi+cj+dk) for real numbers a, b, c, d. (Don't worry about what j and k mean if you don't know; it turns out not to really matter here.) The length of the quaternion 4+3i-7j+4k can be calculated like |4+3i-7j+4k| = √(4²+3²+7²+4²) = 9.486 and similarly for other points in "four-dimensional space". These are the kinds of number systems we're looking for.

[To be explicit, for those who know the words: What we are looking for is a vector algebra over the real numbers with a prescribed basis under which the Euclidean norm is multiplicative and the integer lattice forms a subring.]

Part Two: Sums of Squares

Now for something completely different. Have you ever thought about which numbers are the sum of two perfect squares? Thirteen works, for example, since 13 = 3² + 2². So does thirty-two, since 32 = 4² + 4². The squares themselves also work, since zero exists: 49 = 7² + 0². But there are some numbers, like three and six, which can't be written as a sum of two squares no matter how hard you try. (It's pretty easy to check this yourself; there aren't too many possibilities.)

Are there any patterns to which numbers are a sum of two squares and which are not? Yeah, loads. We're going to look at a particularly interesting one: Let's say a number is "S2" if it's a sum of two squares. (This thing where you just kinda invent new terminology for your situation is common in math. "S2" should be thought of as an adjective, like "orange" or "alphabetical".) Then here's the neat thing: If two numbers are S2 then their product is S2 as well.

Let's see a few small examples. We have 2 = 1² + 1², so we say that 2 is S2. Similarly 4 = 2² + 0² is S2. Then 2 × 4, that is to say, 8, should be S2 as well. Indeed, 8 = 2² + 2².

Another, slightly less trivial example. We've seen that 13 and 32 are both S2. Then their product, 416, should also be S2. Lo and behold, 416 = 20² + 4², so indeed it is S2.

How do we know this will always work? The simplest way, as long as you've already internalized the bit from Part 1 about absolute values, is to think about the norms of complex numbers. A norm is, quite simply, the square of the corresponding distance. (Okay yes it can also mean different things in other contexts, but for our purposes that's what a norm is.) The norm is written with double bars, so ‖3+6i‖ = 45 and ‖5-2i‖ = 29 and ‖4+3i-7j+4k‖ = 90.

One thing to notice is that if your starting numbers are whole numbers then the norm will also be a whole number. In fact, because of how we've defined lengths, the norm is just the sum of the squares of the real-number bits. So, any S2 number can be turned into a norm of a complex number: 13 can be written as ‖3+2i‖, 32 can be written as ‖4+4i‖, and 49 can be written as ‖7+0i‖.

The other thing to notice is that, since the absolute value is multiplicative, the norm is also multiplicative. That is to say, for example, ‖(3+6i) × (5-2i)‖ = ‖3+6i‖ × ‖5-2i‖. It's pretty simple to prove that this will work with any numbers you choose.

But lo, gaze upon what happens when we combine these two facts together! Consider the two S2 values 13 and 32 from before. Because of the first fact, we can write the product 13 × 32 in terms of norms: 13 × 32 = ‖3+2i‖ × ‖4+4i‖. So far so good. Then, using the second fact, we can pull the product into the norms: ‖3+2i‖ × ‖4+4i‖ = ‖(3+2i) × (4+4i)‖. Huzzah! Now, if we write out the multiplication as (3+2i) × (4+4i) = (4+20i), we can get a more natural looking norm equation: ‖3+2i‖ × ‖4+4i‖ = ‖4+20i‖ and finally, all we need to do is evaluate the norms to get our product! (3² + 2²) × (4² + 4²) = (4² + 20²)

The cool thing is that this works no matter what your starting numbers are. 218 = 13² + 7² and 292 = 16² + 6², so we can follow the chain to get 218 × 292 = ‖13+7i‖ × ‖16+6i‖ = ‖(13+7i) × (16+6i)‖ = ‖166+190i‖ = 166² + 190² and indeed you can check that both extremes are equal to 63,656. No matter which two S2 numbers you start with, if you know the squares that make them up, you can use this process to find squares that add to their product. That is to say, the product of two S2 numbers is S2.

Part Four: Why do we skip three?

Now we have all the ingredients we need for our cute little proof soup! First, let's hop to the quaternions and their norm. As you should hopefully remember, quaternions have four terms (some number of units, some number of i's, some number of j's, and some number of k's), so a quaternion norm will be a sum of four squares. For example, ‖4+3i-7j+4k‖ = 90 means 90 = 4² + 3² + 7² + 4².

Since we referred to sums of two squares as S2, let's say the sums of four squares are S4. 90 is S4 because it can be written as we did above. Similarly, 7 is S4 because 7 = 2² + 1² + 1² + 1², and 22 is S4 because 22 = 4² + 2² + 1² + 1². We are of course still allowed to use zeros; 6 = 2² + 1² + 1² + 0² is S4, as is our friend 13 = 3² + 2² + 0² + 0².

The same fact from the S2 numbers still applies here: since 7 is S4 and 6 is S4, we know that 42 (the product of 7 and 6) is S4. Indeed, after a bit of fiddling I've found that 42 = 6² + 4² + 1² + 1². I don't need to do that fiddling, however, if I happen to be able to calculate quaternions! All I need to do is follow the chain, just like before: 7 × 6 = ‖2+i+j+k‖ × ‖2+i+j‖ = ‖(2+i+j+k) × (2+i+j)‖ = ‖2+3i+5j+2k‖ = 2² + 3² + 5² + 2². This is a different solution than the one I found earlier, but that's fine! As long as there's even one solution, 42 will be S4. Using the same logic, it should be clear that the product of any two S4 numbers is an S4 number.

Now, what goes wrong with three dimensions? Well, as you might have guessed, it has to do with S3 numbers, that is, numbers which can be written as a sum of three squares. If we had any three-dimensional number system, we'd be able to use the strategy we're now familiar with to prove that any product of S3 numbers is an S3 number. This would be fine, except, well…

3 × 5 = 15.

Why is this bad? See, 3 = 1² + 1² + 1² and 5 = 2² + 1² + 0², so both 3 and 5 are S3. However, you can check without too much trouble that 15 is not S3; no matter how hard you try, you can't write 15 as a sum of three squares.

And, well, that's it. The bucket has been kicked, the nails are in the coffin. You cannot make a three-dimensional number system with the kind of nice norm that the complex numbers and quaternions have. Even if someone comes to you excitedly, claiming to have figured it out, you can just toss them through these steps: • First, ask what the basis is. Complex numbers use 1 and i; quaternions use 1, i, j, and k. Let's say they answer with p, q, and r. • Second, ask them to multiply (p+q+r) by (2p+q). • Finally, well. If their system works, the resulting number should give you three numbers whose squares add to 15. Since that can't happen, you've shown that the norm is not actually multiplicative; their system doesn't capture the geometry of three dimensions.

[weepingicegiant]

HUGE TPOT 12 SPOILERS!

BUCKLE UP CHAT. CAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG THEORY!!!!!

Where do i begin?

So heres the thing, I watched TPOT 12 then took a shower right after. While taking said shower i took a moment to think about everything that went down. And thought of the wildest theory ever..

• XFHOV

LETS START FROM THE BEGINNING,

One and Three, right?

These two fellas have FINALLY appeared after 15 years! Why is that?

Here is the scene when X found out their value: 7!

Four, Seven, and X are celebrating and generally very happy. Who isnt happy?

Three and one.

Theyre clearly angered by this whole situation, but why? Who are they angry at?

Theres three possible options:

1. Seven. But that wouldnt make sense, huh? Basically every algebralien has SOME sort of grudge held against him, so its nothing new. Scratch that!

2. Four. Its possible, four has done alot of things. But thats not who im personally going to focus on. Well, partially at least.

That leaves one more person!

3. X. But why them?

"Theyre just a little silly dude, they did nothing wrong!" And youre right. Thats exactly why theyre a target.

• THREE AND ONE'S CAPYIVITY

Youre probably wondering, why am i focusing on X, and not four? Four is more of a suspect, after all.

Think about it this way,

Three is trapped in a prison inside of Four's school, so four put him there! (They are the only one with control over that place anyway.)

One is trapped inside of the moon. There isnt really any solid proof to prove my theory with this one, but she came out during TPOT. She clearly had the ability to escape and didnt seem tired out and/or surprised that she finally left her prison. One actually seems happy and collected, even going as far as "greeting everyone" once she's out. She chose to come out at this time, just like how she chose to mess with Two's show.

One also confirmed that shes an "old friend of Two's." If One is suddenly against Two after all the years of them knowing each other, Two clearly did something to her.

• MUTUAL CONNECTIONS

And youre STILL probably wondering, "Chim! You still didnt explain what X has to do with all of this!"

Four and Two hate eachother, this hatred being caused by Two when they stole more than HALF of the bfb cast.

(They seem to not be familiar with eachother when they "first" meet. Im not exactly sure why here HELP.)

But anyway!

Who does Four have a good friendship with? X!

Who does Two have a good friendship with? Also X!

X is what keeps them sane around eachother, the only main reason why they stick around.

If anything bad were to happen to X, Four and Two clearly have the power and ability to get back at whatever or WHOever caused this harm.

One and Three did something to X, and it resulted in Two and Four snapping.

• THREE'S PERSONALITY

Three has basically ZERO information on himself, we know nothing about the guy. But what we do know, is that hes agressive.

In the Number Playground Chronicles, we get an article that explains an event that takes place, Three being apart of it. The article reads:

(To reduce confusion, ill be adding the names for you guys to differenciate whos who.)

"(Five)Integer did not pick up the ball when dropped, and Three Integer, the person playing with him, became impatient. (Five)Integer was angry at (Three)Integer because, Three Integer could simply pick up the ball and throw it to (Five)Integer, and (Three)Integer and (Five)Integer could keep playing.

"FOAMING THREE INTEGER"

The horrible, tragic incident happened at 10:13 AM. Three Integer became Upset.

Three Integer at 10:16, Angry.

Three Integer at 10:31, Furious.

Three Integer at 10:24, and "Foaming."

Three Integer at 10:39, when he started to produce smoke.

(Five)Integer picked up the ball at 6:17 PM."

This event did truly happen, we can see the beginning of it play out in the first few seconds of XFOHV:

Three was so angry and REFUSED to even touch the ball. Five had to go pick it up themself HOURS after the incident.

Three also WILLINGLY closed the cell door after it was opened. He couldve escaped, yet he didnt. I have two possible reasons for this:

1. He's afraid of Four catching him, so he followed orders and stayed put.

2. Three's gone insane after a decade and a half of being all alone, to the point that he WANTS to stay inside.

• ONE'S MOTIVES

One seems like a friendly character, shes smiling in basically the ENTIRETY of her screentime, (minus the part when she conversed with Fanny.)

But something about her smile isnt right, its almost disturbing. The way she grins in the oddest situations,

She is seen with a list during the post-credits scene, with four names on it that are all crossed out, meaning they are "completed."

□ Bell.

□ Bomby.

□ Fanny.

□ Ice Cube.

Notice how all four of these contestants were in some sort of distress during that moment, and One helped them out! In exchange for a "favor."

1. She helped Bell escape elimination by removing her string (something that annoyed Bell constantly due to contestants activley climbing it.) And hiding her.

2. She helped Bomby escape elimination by hiding him.

3. She gave Fanny a new mouth, discarding the need to spend hours at a time searching for it in the ocean.

4. She gave Ice Cube a new pair of legs, allowing her to walk again.

What exactly does One need these favors for? Revenge against Two, of course!

● ONE AND TWO'S FRIENDSHIP

Theres a popular theory stating that Two was kicked out of the equation playground, this would clear up the confusion as to why they basically NEVER appear in the subscriber specials.

Maybe this is because Two hates math! They said it to Gaty in one of the episodes.

I also believe that One was also kicked out. Why, you may ask?

Take a look at this scene in the beginning of TPOT 11:

One's picture was hidden underneath Seven's. As if nobody(COUGH COUGH. Espcially four) wanted her to be mentioned so they simply hid her.

Maybe this is how One and Two became friends, two rejects.

● RANDOM THINGS THAT GET THEIR OWN SECTION CAUSE IDK WHERE ELSE TO PUT THEM

1. How the HELL did One get a mouth and... legs?

2. Judging by One's little room, she probably really likes space and astronomy, maybe thats way the moon was where she was sent.

3. Kinda freaky to think that One was there in the moon the ENTIRE time. Throughout every single episode of the series from BFDI 1A to TPOT9, and we never knew.

Yeah tbh idk what else to say this was just a little info dump cause my mind was PACKED. anyways yeah tell me if i missed anything anf let me know about your little theories and opinions on mine! :3

[chococrepes-art]

I'm back once again, this time with my bfdi Five gijinka, fully coloured and everything!

So at first I wanted to make Five's more eldritch biblically accurate divine form a bull/cow or maybe a lion, but I just knew that Five would look so much cooler as a ✨♑✨capricorn✨♑✨ (aka goat mermaid). And I wanted to save the capricorn look for Eight, but I just felt that it would look so much better on Five so I decided that I'm gonna do something else for Eight.

Also doesn't the symbol 5 kinda look like a capricorn stylized from the side if you look at it in the right way, like the straight line from left to right are the horns and the curve down is the tail, or is it just me?

[green-blue-switcharoo]

What do the other numbers think about it?

Well the first thing X could think of was to ask Five for their opinion, seeing as they're the only other integer with the closest value to four that X knows of.

As for the rest of the numbers, they either:

So not much to do there.

[rockstarmelory]

✨TEN analysis and theory/headcanon ✨

The most popular number mentioned in the Equation playground, the number that everyone loves hanging around and talking about. Once word spread about him, it spreads like a wildflower. This is Ten, the nicest number among the other integers

Ten is anything you can think of a high school guy who's healthy and fit with an extremely great personality. We all know Ten as lovable and cared for by everyone around him. He's friendly and would do anything to help others out. He would go beyond befriending anyone to the point he doesn't mind hanging around Four despite his temper. And once Eight had met him, they already formed an Even Numbers Clubhouse and chilled together watching Object Show 87. What's striking about Ten is his kind personality, even willing to risk his life for his friends or do what anyone tells him to do(like how he's alright with adding with Five to take Six and Nine's place).

There are a lot of good things and aspects about Ten. He's smart, he's athletic, he's always there to help the numbers when they are in need.

Ten didn't become one of my favourite characters until I read more fanfics and look at more art about him. Until I realised Ten is so much more different than the other numbers, no wonder they like him. He's unique in his own way to the fact he blends in by not blending in. Other than Eight, Ten is a completely chill guy and what's more he's the sun in the group. He's a pure bundle of joy and looks into the bright side in everyone's heart.

He saved Nine and Six's cats and helped Seven off the tree. No one else would do it and yet Ten willingly helped. Ten is less hostile than the others who are always annoying and gets into fights and bickers. He even lets Five take off some steam on him while not talking back. He doesn't join in the argument just like Eight. When Five turned around to bicker with Six he just smiled there like everything is gonna turn out ok. Despite their arguments, he knows that they still get along. He sees every negative situation as somewhat just something that passes by. It was also implied by Nine that Ten doesn't deserve the treatment from Fourteen since he's done nothing but spread joy within them.

That's the bad part about him, Ten is overly kind and nice to the point where he's unable to fight back. It makes him naive and oblivious to the point he couldn't see that something was off when Seven and Fourteen disguised as Seven appears. Everyone managed to see the odds but Ten just greets them like it was normal.

After Fourteen got out of jail, he took his revenge on every number. We all know him as a cannibalistic dangerous number but he could've eaten anyone's skin. It could've been Nine, it could've been Five who caged him in the first place. Eight is made out of lead and Six is very aggressive and violent (seven is caged). It could've been either of the formers but no, it HAD to be Ten. Which is why I think the reasons for Fourteen for targeting Ten are one, he might as well be more delicious than the other numbers. Ten is a sweet number himself, to the point it attracts Fourteen to think of tasting how sweet he is.

Two, Ten is really really defenseless. He's not as hostile or exaggerating as the other numbers.(Eight is just hard to eat) Despite having powers too, he lets his guard down. He didn't even argue back at Five like my previous point. It became very obvious that Ten couldn't even fight back when Fourteen tried to eat his skin again and was captured. Ten didn't think much about Fourteen since he thought he wouldn't do it with Five keeping an eye on him. Until the incident occurred. We don't know what happened to Ten before the events of 2673 but we can tell Ten is traumatized to even see Fourteen in his presence, might as well be developing PTSD at this point. I've read a lot of fanfics that have Ten asking why would Fourteen go for him and not the other numbers?

Ten can't bring himself to defend himself. He's as innocent as a lamb ready to be pounced by a wolf just because he did nothing wrong. He had shown a bit of aggressiveness in BFDI: TPOT 15 by breaking the yoyle light into four pieces but other than that, Ten is too kind and nice for his own good. He embraces everyone's differences with open arms before the Fourteen incident.

To conclude, Ten pretty much resembles no matter how kind and nice you are, you'll get taken advantage of by someone who is aware of your weakness. Seriously I've been thinking about this all day when I was studying yesterday and I really feel the need to mention it. I'm not really sure if anyone is aware about the possibilities that, if Ten disappears, none of the algebraliens would be happy at all.

Bonus: Ten also kinda looks like a people pleaser ngl but putting that aside. GUYS IM FREAKING OUT I JUST REALISED TEN IS A MIX OF EIGHT AND TWO'S PERSONALITY BECAUSE TWO PLUS EIGHT EQUALS TO TEN!!(EIGHT IS OVERLY CHILL AND LAID BACK WHILE TWO DESPITE BEING ARROGANT IS CARING AND KIND TOWARDS THEIR CONTESTANTS OMG DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!?!)

[corvesha]

wgat if Five being bullied by everyone it would be funny

I think they'd definitely be bullied by someone.. (everyone is just so mean to this integer 😔)

(quick doodle)

[poppitron360]

Piper sat at the back of the class, bored out of her mind. The teacher was yammering on about solving quadratic inequalities or something- she wasn’t listening. She tried to avoid eye contact with the snobby popular girls, and just generally kept her head down. Thirty minutes to go…

“So, what’re you in here for?” Said the boy sitting in front of her. He’d turned around so that he sat on his chair backwards, like a detective conducting an interrogation. He rested his chin on his hands, and looked up at Piper mischievously.

“You say that like we’re in prison,” Piper told him.

The boy gestured around the classroom, “Aren’t we?”

The boy was skinny, and short for his age. He had a long, elfish face and bony fingers, which were constantly moving, fidgeting, tapping. Piper took in the cheeky grin, the playful twinkle in his eye. Piper had learned not to trust kids at the Wilderness School- they were your typical delinquents, mischievous and unreliable. All the “friendships” she’d seen here, she could tell that both sell the other out for a chocolate bar in a heartbeat. She’d sworn an oath not to fall for anyone’s games at this place.

“Well, what’re you in for?” Piper asked, “I’ll tell you if you tell me.”

The boy waggled a finger at her, “You’re a smart one, I like your game.”

He fished a small, laminated card out of his pocket and showed it to her. The card read: “Leo Valdez. High Security Risk. If caught outside curfew return to Dorm 7A.”

“I have to keep that on me so that they know I’m a “flight risk”,” he put air quotes around “flight risk” and rolled his eyes, “Like that’s gonna stop me. I could totally bust outa here any time I wanted to.”

“So why don’t you?”

He waggled his finger at her again, teasingly, “Aah, a magician never reveals his secrets.”

Nothing about this kid looked magician-like. He was about the height of a seven-year-old, with a torso so thin it was practically non-existent. Maybe this was the wilderness, Piper thought, because this kid looked like a twig.

“So, you still haven’t told me what a fine girl like you is doing in a place like-“

“Valdez!” The teacher snapped, “Face the front. No talking.”

The kid, Leo, shrugged his shoulders and turned to face the teacher.

Later, she leaned in and whispered to him, “Hey, can you help me? I’m stuck on number five.”

Leo turned and shrugged, “I got no clue, sorry.”

“But all your questions are solved. And marked correct,” Piper observed, gesturing to his exercise book.

Something flashed in Leo’s eyes, something like fear or panic, but it quickly went away. He leaned in even closer and dropped his voice to a low whisper.

“It’s simple if you know what you’re doing. You just gotta rearrange the equations, see?” He reached out, and scribbled something down on her paper. He was surprisingly skilled at writing upside-down. “It’s the same as what we learned last week- make x the subject by first factorising, then dividing both sides by the coefficient- but now it’s with symbols of inequality- that’s the “greater-than or less-than” sign- now you can find all the integer solutions to one decimal place, and solve for x.”

He circled the formula he’d written on her page, and looked up at her, triumphantly.

“So the answer is…?” She prompted.

Leo hesitated, clearly frustrated. “The answer is any number ranging from 3.2 to 3.7.”

Piper reminded herself not to underestimate this kid. He made dumb jokes and acted like a goof- but he was a serious genius.

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Thinking I might write more of this fic but it wasn’t going anywhere so I wanted to post what I’ve got so far.

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In Super Smash Bros Brawl, a fully charged shot from Samus does 26% damage. Mario can receive 999% damage while remaining alive — so, he can receive 38 fully charged shots. Reduced to an integer, Mario's life divided by the number of charged shots that will kill him (39) is 0.0256.

In Super Mario 64, a Scuttlebug hit reduces Mario's power meter by 1/8. As an integer, Mario's health divided by a fatal number of Scuttlebug hits is 0.125. By dividing one integer by the other, we can determine that a Scuttlebug hit is approximately five times as powerful as a fully charged shot from Samus.