SCP-033 - The Missing Number (SCP Animation) 

Fun fact, there is an actual mathematical paradox that consists of this. There are numbers currently not named, but the moment u name one of those it will automatically lose that property and another number from the absolute infinite will take it's place. Kinda like the Wikipedia paradox.

"disintegrates anything it is written on" _shouting_ *TO THE LIZARD*

1) split the formula into quadrants 2) record and display each quadrant on separate mediums 3) keep said mediums 30 meters apart 4) always have the pieces of the equation in four separate locations 5) profit

I'm surprised the Foundation has never tried to write the equation on a D-class personnel. That seems like something they would do.

Irrational and imaginary numbers: “I just blew their minds.” SCP033: “hold my beer”

I love the reality-warping SCP stories that make you question stuff even in the real world...

My favourite part of this SCP in the broader canon is that the Scarlet King is described as a “Theta prime”-dimensional entity in some tales

Hunter: imagine a number that does not exist Me: negative 0

I hadn't finished watching when I was like "They're gonna make a D-class vanish by writing it on them". Surprised that test never come to be.

Huh. So that’s why my Pokémon Blue cartridge disintegrated.

0:38 "the mathematicians among you will understand that numbers... are not a metaphysical aspect of reality" platonists: "hold up"

In order to weaponize the equation, you'll want to put 2 parts on seperate specialized stamps, and then use both on the target, while aligning them perfectly.

"Imagine a missing number if you will." You mean that glitch in Pokémon?

5:01 Someone should give this security guard a promotion for participating in every single mission that requires armed personnel the SCP foundation has ever made

Infectious Math. The Definition of True Horror.

This reminds me when i was studying limits for the first time. For example, the value of (x^3 + 1)/(x + 1) when x goes to -1, at first you calculate ( (-1)^3 +1 ) / (-1 + 1), and that is 0/0 which is undefined, so it does not exist! BUT you can factor (x^3 + 1) into (x+1)(x² -x + 1), and then you have the same limit written as (x² -x + 1) when x goes to -1, so we have ( (-1)² - (-1) + 1 )and we have the result 3, and that exists! The point is: In Math, you may stumble on into somethings that does not exist, but there is a way to make sense of it and find some way to bring it into existance. Maybe theta prime is one peculiar case of that, it's process is so complicated that bringing it into existance is enough to cause anomalous effects on reality. PS: Please mathematicians, do not slaughter me. I know i wasn't rigorous but i was just trying to make everyone understand without prior knowledge.

Im surprised that people dont slowly disintegrate after researching this scp. After all the equation is in their memories while they work on it.

You know, what I wonder? Maybe SCP-033 isn't just the only forgotten number, but maybe the only known one of infinite numbers we forgot.

6:47, someone took a photo of the paper the equation was on therefore storing it digitally and then managed to print it out without anything disintegrating

The field of Transfinite numbers. All real numbers are surrounded by them. They're also uncountably infinite. The concept of complex infinity is pretty funky too.

What if you split the missing number between multiple irregular surfaces so it's only the missing number when aligned properly

An SCP that represents the most horrifying thing in the world. MATH!!

Theory: Since different universes have different physics, it's possible that if you invented math in another universe with different physics, you'd end up with different numbers, formulas, equations, etc. Im thinking that SCP-033 is from a universe with different physics where the mystery number in question DOES exist. But, some extradimensional wacko brough the equation to the SCP Universe, and since the equation is incompatible there, attempting to apply it or inscribe it somewhere causes violent, anomalous reactions.

0:15 yo they could amade a MissingNo. reference, it is the missing number "pokemon"

Imagine if this missing number, if somehow plugged into equations detailing how the universe worked, revealed the missing information needed to make the Standard Model complete, or something like that? Like, the standard model works, but it's like a puzzle with bits missing. It makes sense, it's useful for explaining things, but it's not entirely complete either.

"Imagine a missing number, if you will." Like derf, from icarly? 😳😳

Scp foundation: Stores number safely. Random guy: Ooo that number looks like it will be a cool tattoo!

This Theta Prime is the Universe source code, that higher reality beings use to jump start a reality simulation.

"Hey, Patrick I thought of something funnier than 24.” “What" SCP Foundation:

I wonder what would happen when we start getting SCP's in decimal numbers

From what I’ve learned and understood, the concept of math and counting has existed since prehistoric times. The oldest evidence possibly being older than 20,000 years old. 0 was discovered in the late B.Cs. For the majority of humans concept of counting and utilizing Math 0 was an unknown variable. Why would another unknown corrupt and destroy stuff? What is actually different about the number other than the fact that it is unknown and the formula for creating it is extremely advanced math.

Plot twist: It’s the smallest number that no one has ever named. (The algorithm used to find the number is non-stackable)

Can’t they write 0-33 on The hard to kill reptile? Worth a try

So it’s basically Rayo’s number. The only thing that can crash a Turing machine.

I think that the “Missing Number” is literally the form of nothing, not just 0 nothing, but absolute nothingness. That’s the reason it destroys every material it was written on. It transforms it into nothingness

Why hasn't this been used to attempt extermination of the malfunctioning destroyer or carved into 682? This has so much weaponized potential and yet no one is utilizing it to annihilate potential dangers to humanity.

Math is fun and all but when it starts looking like a demon summoning ritual that is where I draw the line

The third question In baldis basics when it hears about this “finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary”

Scp 033: *impossible* Me who still knows calculus,my math teacher and Einstein: HOLD MY BEER

I've considered trying to write a tale for this SCP before, though I don't really have the writing talent or motivation to go through with it. Basically my idea was what if a researcher tried to recreate theta-prime physically? Say you have a box of 9 apples, one for each single digit number, and now you ask where is the theta-primeth apple? The idea would be the researcher creates a physical process of following the equation, so addition would be adding more apples, subtraction taking them away, and division cutting them into equal sized pieces as necessary, until eventually he finds the theta-primeth apple and then... well something horrible happens to him presumably, but I think it's an interesting premise.

11:36 Perhaps a better comparison would be the introduction of new numbers, i.e. going from natural numbers to integers to the rationals, then to the reals and later to the complex numbers. I feel like that last step might be the best one to imagine it, as the complex numbers were only really discovered/invented when a formula proven to work would have needed their existence to work properly. The problem here would be to solve x^3-15x = 4, while the formula would produce cbrt(2+sqrt(-121))+cbrt(2-sqrt(-121)), which includes square roots of negative numbers, something that back then was thought to be impossible, or at the very least " " "missing" " ". Either that or i am so tired that I understand things that don't make any sense, idk

This makes me remember a dream in which someone made me say an impossible/'non-existing' word and my brain crashed so hard I woke up

Back when SCP was fairly new, this one almost made me give up the whole SCP universe in disgust, because to me it just seemed like the article was written by someone who didn't comprehend that the undecimal system is a real thing, and then they just reinvented it with one number being cursed somehow.

Guess that mathematician was right Bleem really is a number.

The only time Mathematics will ever peak my interest is when it's SCP related.

Plot twist: SCP-033 is a negative square root divided by zero

I just love the image of using it on paper airplanes as a way of combating terminators

A shorter version: the square root of a negative number

I hope "Quiet Days" will be animated eventually One of my favorite SCP Stories/Events Hope you can do that soon after animating so many great SCPs and Stories

"Although the SCP Foundation's top researchers have tried their best to find one, there currently exists no safe way to store SCP-033 digitally." Bruh, just pull out an old Pokemon Red or Blue cartridge.

Math class when you look out the window for a second:

It can be stored in a segmented mirror ball with a minor light source with no visibility from the outside, the missing number is thought to have calculated it's value at an infinitesimally slower time, thus lack of decay

Idea: SCP-7253 Name: Harington Diner Appearance: SCP-7253 appears to be a restaurant with red walls and gold/black tiles on the floor. Outside the restaurant is a sign with glowing letters with an unknown power source reading “HARINGTON DINER” It should be noted that the lights flicker, meaning they are powered by something. Anomalous Effect: SCP-7253-1, also known as Trisha Harington, serves as a cashier of the diner. When ordering food from a nonexistent menu, she will shout for one of three chefs, also known as 7253-2 instances, to prepare the food. The chef’s names are Bill Parake, Sèv Somerson, and Keo Moras. After an amount of time that is always the same but impossible to measure, Bill, Sèv, or Keo will come from the kitchen, triggering one of three anomalous effects depending on the chef. Bill appears to be a rotting corpse with a wide smile always on their face. They trigger permanent paranoia and anxiety. Sèv looks like a skeleton with no jaw and a chef hat on. He also has blinding white pupils that don’t seem to affect the other staff. His anomalous effect is permanent blindness. Keo appears to be an amorphous blob of black slime, with various organism’s eyeballs stuck in it. His anomalous effect is permanent depression.

Question : If a human can memorize the said equation, then that means it can be stored in biological computers i.e the human brain. Or is it just copied during the tests?

2 things 1:if you read it,you store it in your brain,thus destroying your brain 2:now right it on 682

I LOVE HOW YOU EXPLAINED AT THE BEGINNING HOW THIS IDEA IS DUMB AND IMPOSSIBLE, THEN CLAIM THAT WE'LL SOON LEARN HOW IT'S NOT DUMB AND IMPOSSIBLE, THEN NEVER TELL US.

Its crazy how true it is. humans "invented" numbers. Like i can say its 2pm when its 8p if i wanted to. The only reason why im "wrong" is b/c society agreed on how times move and when to tell the time

Numbers *are* tools, but they are tools meant to equal values, which *are* metaphysical compenents of reality.

imagine posting zeta prime hidden in pictures all over the internet

If there is one missing number then there is an infinity of missing numbers.

They should try disorienting 682, and writing Theta Prime on him

SCP 033: exists Foundation OCD scientists: challenge accepted!

3:52 write it on 682

The missing number is the answer to the math problem i cant solve

This has always been a favorite of mine. Seems like it would also link up very well thematically with The Spiral Path.

Bertrand Russell known for his Principia Mathematica would have loved this. He and Whitehead would maybe have finish the volume 2

this equation reminds me of two things: 1: the creation of new numbers isn't new to us. in our modern world, we count using a system called base-10. base-10 can count 1-9 (decimal) as in it's name. but we haven't always counted up to ten. in computers, hexadecimal goes to 15 (1-F), binary is just one (0-1) and octal goes to 7. Hutchinson in his explanation of the gap in counting seems to suggest it's a finite number, i think it would be here. 2: we might need to create a whole new field of mathematics in order to understand this. I know, I know. it's probably an understatement, it's probably oversaid. but let me speak here. this number breaks every single rule of mathematics. you thought math was always provable? Kurt Gödel would say otherwise, as he changed the entire game. if he could change math to the point people feared it would make their work impossible, this could too.

"How can a number even be missing?" Every Pokémon fan: *The Expert*

What if you just laser-engrave it onto the hard to kill reptile? It’s stuff like this that’s kinda frustrating

Also make a playlist that puts all of your videos in SCP numerical order

that kid getting mad over the -15 variable actually hurts me...

Type o Negative seems to be immune to it's effects as its basically their logo😅

couldn't they just write parts of the equation on different pieces of paper

Carly calls it "derf".

Seems like a great way to get rid of solidified radioactive waste

Idk why but when I think about it I my head just hurts

There is also a secret integer between 3 and 4. It is called BLEEM.

This is like the Anti-Life Equation from DC, especially with how it disintegrates whatever it’s on

033 seems to be just a different take on the "dividing by 0 creates a black hole" gag from cartoons

>math scp >Euclid class Nice. Now I want to summon Ruclid himself from beyond the mortal coil and have him react to this. And the other math SCPs. And any SCP involving non-Euclidean space.

You must be talking about derf, the number between 5 and 6.

Considering that a human can look at the missing number formula and thus store it in their brain I assume that means that it can be stored in/on living things without breaking them down.

It'd make a lot more sense if it wasn't referred to as a missing number, but rather an unresolved formula, or just some mathematical paradox. Numbers can't be missing, while the names are made up, the amount of something can always be quantified. For instance, if I have an apple, i have 1, if i grab another, i have 2 apples. You cannot provide me a set of apples that I can't apply a number to.

0 is the 33rd digit of pi and the first time it shows up in it. SCP-033 is such a fitting name.

tho, epic weapon: tell an enemy you want to show them cool math, write it in their hand, watch them disappear.

reminds me of "The Secret Number", a short film on the DUST channel with the same general idea. There's a whole number between 3 and 4 ("Bleem") that exists, but for some reason we keep overlooking. And a mathematician is determined to prove it.

And this number will be on your algebra 2 quiz later this week, be sure to study

scp-033 basically created by someone that has overthinking issue

Me running to that comments to make a Pokémon joke: 🏃 When I get there: “Oh.”

Why don't we use SCP 033 to neutraliza SCP 682 , writing it with a Lazer

“What makes a number unknowable?” My dumbass: “Uhhh not knowing about it, duh”

Love the 7th son album art/thumbnail. Well done creator.

Wonder what happens if you write SCP-033 on SCP-682...?

Hey, mathematician here. Wrote this bare bones explanation of why this SCP does what it does. Tried to explain all the terminology, if I missed anything you don't understand feel free to reply and let me know: What you think of as normal three dimensional space (before all the relativity stuff and quantum mechanics). In mathematics is called Euclidean space or Euclidean Geometry (hence horror writer H.P. Lovecraft talking so much about non-euclidean geomerty, that's just any space or object that isn't "normal"). For a space to be Euclidean it has to meet a set of 8 axioms (an axiom is just a mathematical statement about something). If any mathematical set or body (or universe) meets all 8 axioms then it is a Euclidean space and all the algebra, geometry, and trigonometry they tried to teach you in high-school applies. If any one of them isn't obeyed then you need an entirely different mathematical system to describe it and it is non-euclidean (mathematicians usually keep this kind of math to themselves as very few people have need of it except theoretical physicists). One of the axioms alows for the construction of the integers (also called the county numbers or the set of numbers {1,2,3,4,5,...ect}). This SCP supposedly is a mathematical proof that the integers as defined conain an additional element (number) let's call it ϕ (because I want to talk about it, I have to call it something, and I think the Greek letter phi looks cool). So the new integers would be I = {ϕ} U {1,2,3,...}, but this is a known mathematical set! It is ω1 also known as The First Uncountable Ordinal, and it's mathematical properties are very different from the integers I. If you try to go on and verify the other 7 axioms you run into problems immediately. If you try to use ω1 to construct Q (set of all fractions with integers in the numerator and denominator) it gets all F-up. Then trying to use Q to build IR (set of all real numbers) you would get an uncountable Infinite (bigger then infinite or countable infinity, but smaller then complex infinity [don't ask]) number of new numbers everywhere between every existing pair of numbers. The details aren't important, suffice it to say it would fail some of the other axioms. This would mean that the universe we live in isn't Euclidean and that the mathematical models that things like chemical bonds, atomic structures, electron orbitals, and atomic nuclei structure that all things have been observed to be carefully obey in all available data are fundamental invalid, and may fail at any moment. If the matter these objects were on didn't disintegrate so quickly they would likely also disobey laws of probability, economics, marketing, optimization and anything else that could be described by equations.

Rick Sanchez would be capable to deal with almost every problematic SCP there is, including this anomalous number.

Of course. Evil math. Nothing is safe from being an scp even concepts

Thank you for posting at least once a week. I really appreciate it and look forward to your vids versus all the other SCP channels. Keep up the awesome animation and VOICE lol

Day one of commeting until SCP Explained makes a video about the Broken Masquerade cannon.

Fun fact: you can see this number, you just have to surf on the edge of a far away island for a little bit

What if you tattooed SCP-033's formula onto a D-Class and kept them in an isolated cell with a viewing window?