Random Numbers

Inspired by friend of the blog Max's recent post on colo[u]rs, and by this:

Which turned out not to be what I thought it was - what I thought it was is what this post is.

ROUL

A number which counts the uncountable, quantifies the unquantifiable. Roul's inventor used it to measure the love in his marriage, and was divorced shortly after. Some time after that he was murdered in a pub argument with an amateur scholar of the works of William Blake.

Roul is sometimes called "the other zero" by practitioners of the branch of para-mathematics it spawned, as it provides a solid foundation for progression to larger, more complex numbers.

EGNIO

Prohibited ex cathedra by Pope Francis for undermining the doctrine of the holy trinity, egnio is a number which is simultaneously one and many. Besides being a convenient crossing-over point between conventional math and para-math, egnio has many uses - among them the improvement of holograms. At Fyre Festival Reignite an XXXTentaction hologram created using egnio-based analytics performed, and dozens of witnesses - some of them sober - report life-changing encounters with the hologram that went on longer than the actual performance. The Vatican is negotiating the extradition of the team of engineers responsible for the hologram so that they can be tried.

ABORM

Quite meaningless on its own, aborm is used as a multiplier that allows one to "count sideways", rather than higher or lower into positive or negative infinities. Aborm has become a key tool in quantum computing, and there's ongoing debate as to its utility in attaining immortality.

Extended pondering of aborm is discouraged for beginner para-mathematicians, as it can lead to the condition known as abormface, wherein one's nostrils are folded together into one and one's upper teeth clip through one's lips.

HUIL

Referred to as "what subtraction wishes it was" and "God's Wite-Out™", huil is essentially an anti-number. It un-counts. Huil is vital for the abjuration and exorcism of informational entities resulting from para-mathematical operations.

YRSH

Yrsh is a number which stands in for all "lucky numbers". It unfortunately has no effect on actual probabilities, but its psychological hold can be crushing for those prone to superstition.

A sub-branch of para-mathematics studies yrsh in tandem with the digits of π and the atomic numbers of stable superheavy elements to discover the "DNA of the universe", the encoded deterministic course of all things.

KRATA

Also called the "Number Glatisant" and the "White Rabbit", krata is a number with an elusive value - its value changes whenever you try to calculate it. Trying and failing at the last moment to truly calculate krata is something of a spiritual pursuit for many para-mathematicians - chasing it led to the discovery of huil, for instance.