text: [Themes: mathematics, ghost, educational, ancient Greece, drugs]
  
  > go downwards
  You start down the spiral staircase. It's a long descent, with the staircase spiraling down and further down until you've lost track of how many turns you've made. Eventually you realize that you're turning in space, not standing on anything at all...
  
  This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. It feels far, far beyond your understanding, though. Even the language needed to describe it seems beyond your comprehension.
  
  You can see a large glass booth, about the size of an old telephone box.
  
  You can also see Srinivasa Ramanujan here.
  
  > enter the booth
  You get into the large glass booth.
  
  > Go upwards
  You make your way up.
  
  The dark blue expanse of space now contains a plane that stretches as far as you can see in all directions. It includes both the real axis you are standing on and the imaginary axis you can see off in the distance, and it is filled with starry, twinkling lights.
  
  > go east
  Real Axis: 1
  The dark blue expanse of space now contains a plane that stretches as far as you can see in all directions. It includes both the real axis you are standing on and the imaginary axis you can see off in the distance, and it is filled with starry, twinkling lights.
  
  > check what you're carrying
  You are carrying:
  a brass rod
  the largest integer
  Foundations for a General Theory of Functions of a Complex
  Variable
  a logic scroll
  some limit shoes (being worn)
  a square root
  a set (no longer empty)
  Descartes's saying
  a printout
  a toy mountain range
  some correspondence
  the trig homework
  your math book
  
  > put rod in Machine
  The brass rod slides perfectly into the circular hole. A mechanical voice intones, "Riemann Rearrangement Mode activated."
  
  > look up the riemann rearrangement
  (in your math book)
  The Riemann Rearrangement Theorem is one of the more unintuitive theorems in mathematics. It says that for some types of infinite series, if you sum the terms in a different order you can get a different answer. This is emphatically not true with usual arithmetic, where 3 + 5 = 5 + 3. The Riemann Rearrangement Theorem applies only to what are known as conditionally convergent
  infinite series.
  
  > look up conditionally convergent
  (in your math book)
  A conditionally convergent infinite series has the following properties: (1) It consists of positive and negative numbers added in a series, (2) It sums (converges) to a finite value, and (3) If you make all the negative numbers in the series positive, the resulting series does not converge to a finite value.
  
  > examine Machine
  This machine is just as steampunk as everything else here, although there are several parts to it that look at least somewhat recognizable.
  
  For one, the machine has a switch that can be set to "Sequence" or "Series." It is currently set to "Series," although you could easily move it to the other setting by flipping the switch.
  
  There is a button labeled "Alternate" that is currently pushed off.
  
  The machine also has a dial that can be set to "Constant," "Identity," "Squared," or "Reciprocal." It is currently set to "Reciprocal."
  
  There is a small circular hole near the button. A brass rod has been inserted into it.
  
  Finally, there is a warning light on top of the machine. The warning light is dark.
  
  > examine the path
  The path is level with the floor of the room you are currently in. It consists of golden steps that seem to run on forever. Each step has two numbers appearing on it, although from here you can only read the numbers on the six closest steps. The first numbers on the steps are 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6. The second numbers are 1, 1/2, 5/6, 7/12, 47/60, and 37/60.
  
  > go south
  As you approach the golden path you take another look at it.
  
  The path is level with the floor of the room you are currently in. It consists of golden steps that seem to run on forever. Each step has two numbers appearing on it, although from here you can only read the numbers on the six closest steps. The first numbers on the steps are 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6. The second numbers are 1, 1/2, 5/6, 7/12, 47/60, and 37/60.
  
  As you near the path, though, the seventh step swaps places with the fifth step. Then the sixth step swaps places with the ninth step. Other steps swap places with each other, and you stop, watching, as the entire path appears to rearrange itself.
  
  Then a mechanical voice intones, "Rearrangement succeeded."
  
  You move towards the path once more. Just before you reach it, though, it shifts: The heights of the steps change. The first step is now up. After that, some steps are up, and some steps are down, but you cannot discern any sort of pattern to which are up and which are down. Overall, though, the path rises slowly, but it's hard to tell from where you are whether it continues to rise or whether it levels out.
  
  Then you walk out onto the path. The limit shoes react to the contact with the first step: They propel you to the next step, and the next, and the next - faster and faster. Soon you are moving so fast the path is a blur, and then you can't even see it anymore.
  
  You find yourself hurtling through space, only to land in...
  69,105
  This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. It feels cavernous - large but with walls that you can sense are out of your field of vision. A hole leads up.
  
  A pile of leaves is here.
  
  [Your understanding of Infinity has increased. You estimate
  that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two
  points.]
  
  > Count leaves
  You don't have the patience to count the leaves. However, given where you found them, you have a pretty good guess as to how many there are.
  
  > get them
  You pick up the leaves. There are too many to juggle, so you stuff them all into the set.