You’ve just spent a long day at the code factory tirelessly finding a single index error in some analysis code. You get home tired but fulfilled from your day only to discover that a tragedy has struck your apartment! Your platonic, so don’t get any ideas, roommate Sarah is crying over what appears to be her dead hamster Dini. She’s a fellow overworked grad student in mathematics at Cranberry Lemon University. You both room together because they don’t scale the stipend by hours worked.
As both you and her are so busy, the only animals good enough at taking care of themselves and cheap enough for your budget are the deceased hamster Dini and the neighbor’s cat Sir Meowsalot who sometimes slips through the window for more human attention. Dini was always escaping from his Ferplast Hamster Cage complete with an elaborate 94 piece system of tubes created by Sarah in her spare time and he always found a way to escape which is why we named him after Houdini, the great escape artist. This time, the escape was deadly.
“I Can’t believe he’s dead, must have escaped like he always does right when Sir Meowsalot came in to sit in his favorite 2:30pm sun ray” Sarah sobbed
“Well you can’t be mad at a cat, he’s just doing what he does naturally”
“DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT”
You look over at her white board and some strange new contraption connecting Dini to a 3D printer.
“What’s that?” you ask.
“I’m bringing him back…” Sarah shuffled around some papers dense with set theory math you chose to forget after a rough semester of abstract mathematics. “I’m going to bring him back using the Banach Tarski paradox and we can be a whole family again!”
What do you do?