tl;dr the numbers in Infinity Train makes no sense and makes this scientist want to scream cry and throw up
Being an astronomer that is also a fan of Infinity Train honestly gives me psychic damage when it comes to how absolute bonkers this number system is. For most of my life after Book 3 I have chosen to ignore it for the sake of my sanity but I cannot any longer.
For example, let's take a look at these two screenshots:
So in the screenshot on the left, Grace is something like 13-14, and on the right, she's 17-18 or something. The point is, this is roughly 4 or so years apart right?
Now take a closer look at Grace's number on the right screenshot:
So there's around 15 visible digits. Which would mean that her number is in the 10^15 range, or a quadrillion, right? Nope.
There's digits all around her arm. So let's use our physics brains and assume her arm is a perfect cylinder, and that 3 digits spans the diameter of this cylinder. So with grade school math we know the circumference is pi*diameter, so actually she would have 3 times as many digits on her arm at that moment.
3*15 = 45
her number is in the order of 10^45.
10^45. One with 45 zeroes behind it.
Do you KNOW how MASSIVE that number is?????
BUT WAIT you say, her arm isn't a perfect cylinder, her wrist is smaller than her elbow. Fine. 10^40 then.
Coincidentally, when I made a number glove for my Simon cosplay, it also ended up having roughly 40 digits on it, but I digress.
LET'S PUT 10^40 INTO PERSPECTIVE.
This is the Sun.
In terms of kilograms, the sun weighs 2x10^30 kilograms. So again, that is 2 with THIRTY ZEROES behind it.
But if Grace's number at the beginning of Book 3 was a mass in kilograms, it would be at least ten orders of magnitude greater than that. Not ten times. Ten orders of magnitude. In other words, TEN BILLION TIMES THE MASS OF THE SUN.
Do you know what is ten billion times the mass of the Sun?!
THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD
So, Infinity Train writers, you are telling me, that in the span of four years. Grace's number went from 702 to A FUCKING GALAXY SIZED NUMBER?!
Okay chief. Sure. Why not.
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a bit late on this but oh well
characters (left to right): prue mckeel (wildwood chronicles), raggedy andy (raggedy ann and andy), ryan akagi (infinity train)
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Alright Infinity train fans. Give me a fictional character that you think would START OUT on the train looking like this: (like on their first day)
I'll go first with a really obvious one:
Bill Cipher.
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I noticed a pattern
Lemme know if there are other Simons that fit these categories
(Sorry if the term Psychopath comes off as offensive or anything, I made this ages ago before I found out the issues with that word and now it's too late to change it)
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the only link i have saved to my favorite online cartoon pirating site goes to Infinity Train, so whenever i want to go watch anime it's like i'm taking a train there <3
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