@chimerror Also I'm real curious what the math premise was! I was a math jock once upon a time, before I took an arrow to the limbic system. n.n;
@zebratron2084 Ok so it's mentioned off hand in the current stuff that is out there, but I basically decided that the value of transcendental numbers breaks down well past any current calculations of those numbers, and how it breaks down produces slightly different values for each "universe"
that is, you can tell what universe you're in by what (incorrect) calculation of pi you see
@zebratron2084 this happens well after any reasonable ability for what technology can possibly measure so physics still seems to work and affects the actual computers within the universe so they just give that answer if they get that far
(even people would get that answer if they could manage to get that far, but no one's been good enough to reach that point just as the max human calculated digits of pi is much smaller)
@zebratron2084 like within the reality of the simulated universe the math is just wrong, but no one can really get that far to realize that without having already traveled to other realities and seen the different values
@zebratron2084 and by manipulating these slight errors in calculation you get magic
@chimerror It's a really interesting idea, regardless, and I think it's *well* within the realm of "listen, it's a damn fantasy premise." FWIW, I've seen no less than Charlie Stross play at least as wooishly with math... (See his FANTASTIC story of memetic subversion, "Antibodies," which I believe was in his "Toast" anthology, which plays REAL fast & loose with the consequences of P = NP...)
@zebratron2084 that's good to hear!