Limits, by Terrie01

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Title: Limits
Author: terrie01
Summary: John's thoughts at the end of The Siege II.

There is a number in his head. It's bigger than zero, but less than one. A lot less. It represents the probability that he will get through this alive. It's a small number, and it won't get any bigger. Well, no, that's not completely true. As x approaches infinity, the limit of the function is 1. In the infinite possibilities of an infinite number of universes, he has a chance to survive. But infinity is a long way off. It dangles just out of reach.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, MathGeek!Shep. I figure he would strive for some semblance of logic in whatever life-threatening situation he gets himself into.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Being a math geek myself, I had to write this.

[morena-donn.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant. Great characterization, and an interesting take on the challenge.

Only, (and I hesitate to point this out, especially as I'm afraid I've misspelled characterization, or possibly misspelled (I'm not dragging my dictionary out just to make a comment) but there are a couple of typos....

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

*grumbles* I swear, I checked and double checked for typos. Stupid eyes. They never work right. Um, where exactly?

[morena-donn.livejournal.com]

Possibilities and universes - and I had to get the dictionary out after all, because I wasn't sure how to spell possibilities myself - I just knew there had to b a 't' in there somewhere. *g*

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I swear, I am the WORST at catching typos.

[sundara.livejournal.com]

Packs a punch for such a few words. Nice take on the challenge!

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[direaliete.livejournal.com]

Loved it ;)

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Read this quickly at work when it was fresh and forgot that I didn't have time to say how much I liked it.

Would say more, but then this would be longer than the piece. *g*

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And I welcome feedback longer than the piece. :)

[barkeep.livejournal.com]

Nice! I do so love MathGeekShep!

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

The math geeking is one of the reasons I like Sheppard. Being a math geek myself.

[orange852.livejournal.com]

ooooYeah. Dangles, it does. Bless his mathish heart! Thanks!

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

[ms-smooth.livejournal.com]

I like your interpretation of the challenge. Very nicely done.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

I had been pondering some metaphor involving limits. I love that you applied the notion to John in the jumper. For all that this is short, it packs quite a punch.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I admit, this was partially a bit to show off my own mathiness. The world needs more mathiness.

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

I love this. Thank you.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Thank you!