I am ∏, and yes, this is my story. I was born to Mr.
Circumference and Ms. Diameter, who unfortunately had to part ways and divide
before my birth. Please pardon me for being unable to recollect my exact year
of birth. I’ve grown old. Yesterday, ∑ left me stumped by asking me my Googolth
digit. Seriously, I do not remember beyond a million now. I answered ‘7’ and
got away with it just because even he didn’t have a clue. I then gave him a small problem of
summing up my first 100 digits. I tell you, this ∑ is very good at
summations. Within no time he came up with the right answer. In the meantime, sultry
e had walked towards us. You know how much I
used to like her, no? People always accused me of being irrational, but then if
I was irrational, so was e. You know how I
never gave up on her… until that scoundrel Natural Log came along. From the
very moment that he first stood beside her, they became 1. Recently there’ve
been rumours that the unity isn’t what it used to be, and e
wants out. It’s also been alleged that e is seeing
another man by the name Log 10, who, people say owns 2.303 times as much as
Natural Log does. Anyway, e invited us to her
birthday party. She also said that she was in talks with rockstar ψ to perform
on her birthday. Apparently, he is friends with a friend of hers. Not only did
he agree to perform, but he even agreed to charge 1.618 Cr instead of his usual
2.618 Cr for the performance. We were elated and said it would indeed be an
honour to be on the guest list.
But then life’s not always this fair no? We had barely
uttered thanks when the bully brothers, α, β and γ, made themselves visible. They had
overheard our conversation and were now pestering e
to invite them to her birthday too. Poor e
had to relent. I felt bad for her. At the same time, I had this enormous urge
to knock their teeth off. You know na these were the guys who nicknamed me
22/7? Terrible, terrible name. Not only is it inaccurate, but it also gives
people the impression that like the so called rational ones, even I possess a
split personality. P/Q, they call it. I swear to God that if I have my way,
I’ll first take out this γ guy. I know that he’s a third
as potent as α and half as potent as β. Then I’ll take out β, and then, this
stupid α. You know na what this α thinks of himself? He says the whole world
belongs to him. He even calls it by a stupid name, the Alphabet. In order to
avoid confrontation, though, I left.
Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, I bumped into
iota on my way back home. I hope you know all about iota. He’s the biggest liar
the Alphabet... er the world, has ever seen. In fact there isn’t an iota of a
real side to him. He narrated one of these imagined stories of his. Apparently,
he tried to broker a peace between e
and her x husband (Natural Log). No matter how much he tried to integrate ex, he couldn’t succeed. e and x share a strange relationship, he
says. Apparently, Log10 has tried to create misunderstandings and
differentiations in ex. He
hasn’t been successful so far, he concludes. Iota also reports having witnessed
improvement in the behaviour of his cousin, δ, even since
he was convicted for felony. But he says the change is too small and that δ will have to wait a while till he can apply for a parole.
Frankly, I feel iota is full of gas and his level usually exceeds the standard
of 8.314 units per second set by R. That is why I do not believe a word of what
he says.
Very eventful day that. Met a lot of people, a few good
ones, a few not-so-good ones. For now though, all I can think of is e’s party and ψ’s performance. I just
hope he performs the Golden-um song. I also look forward to meeting e again at her party. There is always
this constant trouble which arises when people try to broker peace and
integrate e and her x. I hope I am
this constant this time. For that I’ll need to be sure that integration efforts
do take place. Definite integration is required. I hope it does happen. Oh Lord! The tension! Definite
Integration, Lord! I can’t afford to C this anymore.