2, 4, 8. Those numbers at least have a relationship.
2, 4, 8: YES.
Did he say the integers have to be less than ten? He didn’t, did he? Okay.
1, 247, 6: YES.
Okay, try negatives.
1, -1, 0: YES.
Try all negatives??
-5, -247, -8: YES.
Try all zeroes.
0, 0, 0: YES.
This exercise is STUPID.
5, 3, 15: YES.
Stupid and AWFUL.
Okay, what other traits do integers have. They can be even or odd. They can be positive or negative. They can be factors of one another. They can be… addition problems, the first one was an addition problem. They can be division problems.
Try writing down STUPIDLY LARGE numbers, even though this won’t get her anywhere.
568, 9840348, 653203: YES.
Obviously.
She can’t think of anything but she’s obviously not allowed to give up, even though her heart is dropping like a rock. She gets a sense of curious worry from the butterfly familiar still in her room, over the empathic link, presumably from all of the intense emotions she’s having. She tries to tamp down her current emotions enough to send a coherent message back. The feeling of seeing a warm meal when hungry, the feeling of being chained up alone in a dark room, the feeling of seeing a warm meal again. This is supposed to indicate to Pretender that she’s fine, actually. She’s not entirely sure that she is.
……..okay, wait. When Korva had reason to designed a code with things sort of like digits, she did - alternating differently-valenced things? Try alternating things that are different.
1, 2, 1: YES.
-1, 2, -3. YES.
This is obviously doomed, but be thorough anyway.
1, -4, 2: YES.
She hates this. They’re going to send her to hell right away, and she won’t even have learned anything, and she will therefore be starting at a disadvantage relative to everyone else in hell because she died young and didn’t even get to learn the things that mortals are supposed to learn, so she’ll be worthless for her entire existence and have a boring and fundamentally useless eternity, not even because she was inherently worthless, but because someone sent her into this stupid, ridiculous class for how to be an axiomite made of math just because she knows how HISTORY works.
These aren’t things that alter-Korva would be thinking except that OH WAIT YES THEY QUITE POSSIBLY ARE, GIVEN THAT EVEN IN ALTER CHELIAX SHE ALSO NEVER GETS TO GO HOME UNTIL THE PROJECT IS OVER.
1, 2, 3, 4, she writes down, angrily, in case disobeying instructions is the POINT.
1, 2, 3, 4: INVALID INPUT SYNTAX.
Okay. Not that.
That technically breaks the “always outputs yes” rule.
3, 2, 1, she writes, and a guess. Guess: Always outputs "YES" when given a valid input sequence.
3, 2, 1: YES. WRONG.
Of course.
What other things can you do with integers. Division problems, sure, that won’t fucking be it but she can test it.
…wait.