Ficlets: from the 100 prompts (076)

[ghaidin]

title (076) who?
word count ~ 400 (*sigh* there went my "short" promise)
who Athena and Ares
disclaimer Bear with me, this boring ficlet is proof that I'm no Kurumada. Maybe, if I were like Toei I could distribute it somehow, but I doubt it.

Comments

[undertheice]

Aah~ With these gods, no wonder... :P

- Name doesn’t ring any bells. <-- Cracked me up. Talk about lazy guardians.

[ghaidin]

rotten luck, to be the aries saint.
gotta deal with any punk who shows up... how come pisces never has to shoo away anyone?

*waves to choco*

[undertheice]

Cloth-repairer, doorman and who knows what else. Mu really gets the bad part of the deal.

*choco waves back*

[ghaidin]

and who knows what else

I need chocolate or something to shift all the images that simple and innocent sentence has put in my head to something more orthodox

Poor Mu, really.

[undertheice]

And here I was, hoping my comment wouldn't ignite such thoughts. I could have changed the wording but, really, would it have been as much fun? O:)

[ghaidin]

yah, you now go and act all innocent. :E

[undertheice]

What? Sorry, I didn't hear you, I was too busy polishing my shiny halo. :B

[ghaidin]

...which you stole from little shaka, no doubt. Or some careless angel.

shame on you, really, gimme that halo? You'll feel better afterwards. I'll give it back to its rightful owner or keep it for mehself

[undertheice]

Excuuuuse me, I rightfully stole it! 'Tis mine now and all.

Now, I can always lend it for a comfortable sum of money. :)

[ghaidin]

comfortable, i see. I like 0. Or minus 3, actually. So, waddayasay? i owe you -3? (hundred dollars)

[undertheice]

... I really shouldn't talk about money with you, should I? Errr, let's leave it at 0, yes 0. And if you're not content with it you can always give it back!

[ghaidin]

I always had the slight suspicion that all that crap that infinite addition of zeroes gives zero was a well-calculated lie.

Proposition: An infinite sum of zeroes returns a non-zero amount.

I mean, you need someone to do the adding. Probably lots of someones, if you want a shot at anyone believing you're doing enough to approximate "infinite" even grossly. So, once you put in a human in the equation (or several) you introduce the almost certainty of mistake. But excuse me, this is unacceptably informal. Let me get back in track:

The argument then goes like this: at some point one (or more) of the operators will with a positive probability make a mistake and an arbitrarily small quantity will be added. Hence, the result will be larger than zero (or smaller, if the quantity happens to be negative).

QED.

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my work here is done, now hand over the halo! :E

[undertheice]

B-but zero is supposed to be zero and nothing else and- but- and-

*brain pofs* *brain sizzles* H-here. x.o;

[ghaidin]

had to leave to go watch the drag queen race (my, was it FUN!)

yepee! thanks for the halo! *smooches*