There’s a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult horrors like vampires like and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the fridge edges of space. They’re like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It’s a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.
Don't do the forbidden math
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
the fridge edges of space
Somewhere near the borders of known space, shrouded by darkness and a two-week-old carton of milk, they lurk… the moldy leftovers!
ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
novel series called the Laundry Files
Thank you i’ll search that 👍
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Happy to share. Hope you enjoy.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 7 months ago
What a bizarre idea. Thanks for the rec!
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
Gonna try to lay my hands on it, thanks, seems stupidly crazy and enjoyable
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Awesome my library app has it, thanks! Sounds right up my alley!
Brekky@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My library has it thanks!!
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
That sounds amazing. I’ll give that a read, thanks mate
Kiernian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the Laundry Files
Sweet, Thanks.
I just checked The Atrocity Archives (first book in the series) out of my local library’s e-book program.
I’m looking forward to reading this.
Letto@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I’d like to add the audiobooks are quite good for those who listen! They’re a very fun series (I’ve “only” been through the first 6, quite a few more after I checked.)
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks all the time, now, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you’re doing menial tasks that aren’t mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping… audiobook. I’ve been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that’s also weird as hell. Thoroughly recommend if that’s your kind of thing.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
First time seeing them mentioned online, Charles Stross is great
TheCannonball@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
TheCannonball@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I need to read this. Thanks for the book recommendation
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s the teachers that said we wouldn’t always have calculators in our pockets getting revenge.
Kase@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup. If you use your calculator for 5×6 instead of remembering your times tables, they lock you out
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
80085
mdurell@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s an old code but it checks out
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
5318008
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
13707 193
mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 7 months ago
Legend says he divided by zero
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
iPad users be like
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tried to do the funny “58008” on the display didn’t you?
Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
You probably did meth
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Yeah you can use all the fancy symbols you want but at the end of the day multivariate differential calculus is just addition and multiplication in a funny arrangement, you can’t stop me. L’Hopital taught me how to divide by zero and by god I will, damnit.
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Froyn@kbin.social 7 months ago
I remember seeing a review for that game a while back. Didn't know you could get banned from it.
I found the review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAp15OmW2sTreczoks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now I really want to know what this person did to get this.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 7 months ago
✓-1
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Huh, I was expecting my phone’s calculator to return i, but it just says it’s undefined. You’d think imaginary numbers should be supported, but I guess not. Maybe some phone calculators do, and some don’t?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Iiiiih…
unoriginalsin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wall hacks.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Homie tried to divide by zero.
Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Homie is chinese
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TEACH ME THE DARK EQUATIONS OF OLD
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is what smurfing will get ya
bquintb@midwest.social 7 months ago
This is what happens when one attempts to divide by 0
StThicket@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Or square root of -1
Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
i see what you did there
T4V0@lemmy.pt 7 months ago
He did the monster math
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was a graveyard smath
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seems fair
unoriginalsin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wouldn’t even care. Excel is always open.
PossiblyHuman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He really said 80,08.
ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The forbidden math is used to summon demons: f-droid.org/…/com.quaap.computationaldemonology/
fury@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is what happens when you try to use third party ink cartridges in your calculator.
Exusia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Calculator-as-a-service
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 7 months ago
When you break the subscription cost down into weekly payments, it seems very reasonable.
marcos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It costs less than a Stabucks coffee every 5 minutes.
R2DPru@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wouldn’t know. I can’t check.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Adless addition is easily worth it
Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The secret to selling the calculator subscription is to use the smallest possible unit as the potential clients can’t use the calculator to calculate the yearly cost of the calculator subscription.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, but if you sign up for a year up front you get an additional 15 parentheses a month.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Addition = 1 mathgem.
Subtraction = 2 mathgems.
Multiplication = 3 mathgems.
Division = 5 math gems.
Square root = 10 mathgems.
100 math gems = £1.99.
100 math gems = £15.99.
1000 math gems = 129.99. <>