Yay, thanks! The shapechanging villain was yoinked straight from another fairytale (several actually) so that I could have an empty suit of Iron Man armor for the final bit where it goes clattering to the floor.
Tony invented pi!
I... actually just intended to have him cleverly realizing he could *use* Pi to cheat is way out of the metal woman's demand via semantics (she didn't say he had to finish calculating the amount, which would be impossible - she specifically told him to finish engraving it). Then, after I'd already finished the storhy, I looked Pi up and discovered that the symbol first came into use in the 1700s, as an abbreviation for perimeter - and since this is vaguely set in the mid 1600s (what with all the 30 Years War referencesand stuff), I basically do have Tony inventing it. Which was an accident, but it's cool enough that now I wish I'd been clever enough to do it on purpose.
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Tony invented pi!
I... actually just intended to have him cleverly realizing he could *use* Pi to cheat is way out of the metal woman's demand via semantics (she didn't say he had to finish calculating the amount, which would be impossible - she specifically told him to finish engraving it). Then, after I'd already finished the storhy, I looked Pi up and discovered that the symbol first came into use in the 1700s, as an abbreviation for perimeter - and since this is vaguely set in the mid 1600s (what with all the 30 Years War referencesand stuff), I basically do have Tony inventing it. Which was an accident, but it's cool enough that now I wish I'd been clever enough to do it on purpose.