So, palindromes are turning out to be great writing prompts, I'm loving it. This one took me down a rabbit hole of logic twisting words that made no sense to my non-math brain. I guess I've heard of transcendental numbers before, but being completely uninterested in, and no good at, math I never thought to read about them. Um, fuckin wow. Even the first sentence of the Wikipedia entry, meant to be a concise and basic explanation, lost me. I'm a pretty smart lady, but I guess I fell off the math train before it even left the station. I still do long division, soooo. "Wtf is long division?"  I know, right? Anyway, a transcendental number is a number that is not algebraic. Simple enough, huh? Except for all the exceptions and parenthesis and brackets and equations and commas and possible this' and thats. And, apparently it's extremely difficult to prove that a number is transcendental, so there are some "proven" numbers and some that "may or may not be". I read about these mysterious and amazing numbers for, like, an hour, at least. My eyes were burning and watery by the time I decided to stop. It could have been the dust from sweeping the garage or the glare of the computer screen, but maybe it was my own frustration at not being able to grasp any of it. Now that I've started writing again and am loving it, should I expand on other things in life?  Like math? The pretzel that my brain was left in after trying to understand that says no, but you have to learn things right? We shall see, I suppose.  Who wants to teach me math? It might be the fact that it's the only one I'd heard of previous to my foray into transcendental number land, but it suffices to say, at this point...

I prefer pi.

Check it out for yourself. If you get it, hit me up dawg. I'd love to get it, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number