excerpt 3 from chapter 5

“Yes,” Agnew replied. “It’s a very important irrational number for your reality. It is actually the true base of your reality, not 10 like you humans all think, just because you have ten fingers and toes. What surprises me is that there’s a button for it. When you filled in the space beneath the parabola, you for all intents and purposes created the possibility of e.”

excerpt 2 from chapter 5

I pressed it again, and the ellipse got taller. The third time I held the button down and the ellipse grew and grew and grew until I could no longer see the top of it. What I could see looked more and more like a parabola.

chapter 5 excerpt 1

The number (√2-1)/4 appeared within it, and similar isosceles triangles appeared in the other quadrants of the circle. Then smaller isosceles triangles appeared in between those and the arc of the circle. Around and around the triangles appeared with ever smaller triangles to fill the gaps and more and more complicated numbers until finally the entire circle was filled with red, and all that remained was a point in the center and the number π above it.

4 again...

A new button now appeared, with a ∑ on it. I had seen it before, but didn’t know what it stood for.

excerpt 2 from chapter 4

“Yeah, like I was saying, the noumenal part, the part that is in the mind. This is the first half. First we create the categories of this reality. Then we actualize it.”