imaginary floors | hilbert-space
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imaginary floors
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1 minute

INT. ELEVATOR – DAY

Falling upward, Jill and I stare blankly into the car’s interior panel, marveling at the banquet of call options its many buttons have to offer

ME

(gesturing)

Jill, do you sometimes wonder whether numeric controls might be improved by the introduction of mathematical operatorsyou know, like addition, subtractionor multiplication?

JILL #735

(listless)

No.
I do not.

ME

Floors could be summoned by way of arithmetical calculation. Passengers would press the equals sign

JILL #735

(sigh)

ME

(cont.)

Travel dynamics would shift, as new options emergefractional floors, for example. You could divide one prime number by another, call a floor with a repeating decimal, and wind up in a place you never thought you could be

JILL #735

That’s interesting.

ME

Yes. And consider what possibilities which might arise with the inclusion of operators like square root, or natural logarithm. Negative numbers
If you called the square root of a negative number, you could wind up on an imaginary floor!

A tone sounds, indicating stop. The double doors part

JILL #735

(grinning, vaguely)

Why don’t you go to an imaginary floor?