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Math time shenanigans

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Location: Math class

It's a bright and sunny weekday morning. The sort of morning one should be spending sleeping in, or failing that, outside playing with friends.

Sadly for all of you, you're in this classroom studying logarithms. (Well, except for those of you who are cutting class. Good luck when finals roll around!) Right now, you've been split up into groups of three and four and should be quizzing each other on the questions from the end of the chapter in your textbook. If you're anything like ordinary high school students, though, you're probably discussing something completely different.

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"Five... Eight... Seven...?" That didn't make any sense.

"Five... Four... Three..." No, that was going backwards.

Hiyo glared at the book in front of her, clearly frustrated with the numbers set in front of her. All of the printed numbers on the pages were clear as day, clear to see, however for Hiyo it was simply frustrating for her to understand what numbers came first and last and in the middle and... Math used to be one of her best subjects, and she couldn't even figure out how to count to ten.

She hung her head, foreheading hitting the desk slightly and growled. "Agh, I can't do this!"

Jack was about ready to stab something.

Mind you, he was always about ready to stab something. But this was something entirely different than his usual rage. No, this was concentrated at one concept in particular.

Teachers.

Jack had only been here for a short while, and he knew without a doubt how much he loathed these wastes of body material already. Each one of them (all four of the ones that had politely stopped him and asked why he wasn't in math class) made him sick. Would've made him sick even as a body on the floor, but at least then he could retch without getting sweetly asked if he needed directions to the nurse's office.

And this uniform! While he did have to admit it was at least tolerably designed, being forced to wear anything by anybody was an immediate ticket into Rageville, population: Jack. And Rageville's only inhabitant had had enough trouble getting the damn thing on over his wings and tentacles that he was just ready to leave the damn things on so he didn't have to fiddle with them. He'd have just refused, but the teacher was quite adamant, and Jack didn't particularly fancy being locked in his room.

However, finally having managed to put on his uniform, the ex-Archagent of Derse stomped up to the math classroom. Without his walls, he couldn't see what was going on, after all, and that meant reconnaissance fell solely on his shoulders. Finally reaching the room, the mutated Dersite threw the door open and threw his gaze upon the first student he noticed.

"Hey, kid. Yeah, you." The Sovereign Slayer stomped over, stopping a few short feet away from her desk. "What the hell kinda place is this?"

She tilted her head up, taking a peek in the direction of which the sound of steps were coming from. Hiyo found her violet gaze concentrated on a male student that she could tell was older than herself. "What are you talking about?" she asked him inn response, feigning innocence, "It's a school, of course!"

"Hey." Kallen tried her best to reassure her. "This stuff isn't easy." Seriously, this was advance mathematics. Did this school honestly believe most of the students would actually understand this stuff? Of course, Kallen understood it, but she tried her best to calm Hiyo down.

"We should probably backtrack."

Looking up, Hiyo saw the older female and gave a small nod of her head. While she was still fuming about the supposedly difficult math problems, she did her best to really calm down and stare at the book in front of her.

"It's not like I don't know how to do this," she stated, her fingers playing with the corner of the pages quietly. "I just... I just can't count."

Oh--

Oh that was going to be a problem.

"Well let me ask you. You can't count or you can't remember how to?"

"I think I knew how to do this before, but I forgot how to, I think," she replied, sighing heavily.

Yeah. That would be a problem. And to be honest, Kallen didn't think that the teacher should hold it against for not remembering. It's not like this girl chose what memories to forget.

The teenager sat across from the girl and introduced herself. "My name is Kallen. What's yours?"

Oh, how lovely, someone was going to help her. Maybe, she thought, if she could befriend this older girl, she would get even more help for her plans (whatever they were, of course... Remembering her own schemes was frustrating her too.)

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Hiyo! Thank you for the help, Kallen!"

"I'm not sure what help I can really provide. Without basic counting, I doubt any of this is going to make any sense to you. But I can try."

Hiyo shook her head, looking down at her book. "I'm sure you'll be a big help - I just know it!" Optimism was a key point to playing the role of a good girl, Hiyo knew, so she added an extra umph to her exuberance and looked back to Kallen.

"So, where do we start?"

"At the beginning, I guess." The older one had been getting a weird vibe, but then shrugged it off. "You know what logarithms are, right?"

She blinked.

"S-Sure I do!" she replied quickly. "It's... It's this thing, with numbers and... stuff, right?"

"If you don't know, it's okay," Kallen laughed. "A logarithm of a number to a given base is the power to which the base must be raised in order to produce that number." She paused. "The base is usually b equals ten."

"I think I get it," she paused for a second to let the definition process in her head. "Can we do an example, Kallen?"

"Sure." She takes a piece of paper from her notebook and drafts a formula. Kallen writes down:

2³ = 8

{Is now cheating even more and is using this website. lmao}

"It's just that?" Hiyo questioned the older female, looking at the example a second time. "That didn't seem too hard..."

"Basics are important is all."

"Yeah, I guess they are." She looked at the pages of her book to see if there was anything that seemed troubling. "It says to figure out the logarithms for these numbers and order them... The numbers are big though," she murmured.

"Yeah. They usually don't break then down too often." Kallen tapped the pencil onto the piece of paper. "See if you can solve this."

log₂32 = 5

The horrors of mathematics. The horrors of logarithms. Hiyo didn't even want to try, really, but she stared long and hard at the given problem anyway.

And she just. ended up staring at it for what seemed a very long time.

"I-I can't do it."

"It's all right." Kallen understood that there was no way Hiyo was going to get through this math class. "I wonder if there's someone we can talk to about this."

"I-I'm sorry for being able to do this..." she glanced off to the side, at the feet of some other poor soul in class. "Do you know anyone who's good at math?"

"No, don't apologize. It's not your fault, Hiyo." She looked up at the ceiling for a split second. "I am good at math, but if you can't remember how to count, then none of this is going to make any sense, no matter who helps you. And it's not fair to you to have to be in this class because of a memory you didn't choose to get taken away from you."

"Isn't there a way to restore memories?" she asked, as she had heard about the method to regain those last fragments, but Hiyo wasn't too occupied with the idea of regaining them, however they seemed important to get back (why the hell did she forget how to count?).

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hi i don't know what logarithms are, but WIKIPEDIA DOES.

wikipedia has all of my answers

I never learned what the function did on my calculator lmao

i've never heard the term before in my life lmfao but i know what the concept is

I know nothing about this. Math outside of algebra is either null or I just suck at, like geo.

algebraaa /having exams on algebra I now...

algebra makes me happy.... It's the only math thing I'm good at lmao

loev algebraaa but even as I look at this site I can't... figure this out lolol /fail

LMAO I would never be able to figure this out.

we would totally pass this class like winners

LMAO CLEARLY

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