INT. ELEVATOR – DAY

Traveling upward, Jill and I stare blankly into the car’s interior panel, marveling at the banquet of call options its many buttons have to offer…

ME

(gesturing)

Jill, do you sometimes wonder whether numeric controls might be improved by the introduction of mathematical operators—you know, like addition, subtraction…or multiplication?

JILL #735

(listless)

No.
I do not.

ME

Floors could be summoned by way of arithmetical calculation. Passengers would press the equals sign…

JILL #735

(sigh)

ME

(cont.)

Travel dynamics would shift, as new options emerge—fractional floors, for example. You could divide one prime number by another, call a floor with a repeating decimal, and wind up in a place you never thought you could be…

JILL #735

That’s interesting.

ME

Yes. And consider what possibilities which might arise with the inclusion of operators like square root, or natural logarithm. Negative numbers…
If you called the square root of a negative number, you could wind up on an imaginary floor!

A tone sounds, indicating stop. The double doors part…

JILL #735

(grinning, vaguely)

Why don’t you go to an imaginary floor?