 Item number SCP-033 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-033 should be inscribed in any single sheet of irregular shaped and handcrafted paper, but pyrus, canvas, or vellum were not involved in active observation or study. The dimensions of the paper-like product should have no parallel borders, no right angles, and no sides lint should be equal to any other. 033 Safe Dimensions When contained in this manner, the paper-like product should be secured in a locked non-combination storage vault at least 30 meters from any computing or recording device. Logs for checkout or check-in of SCP-033 should be filled out at the minimum safe distance of 30 meters to avoid possible contamination of the paper product or electronic device the log is kept in. When removed for study, SCP-033 can be copied to a white chalkboard with 033 Safe Dimensions by Class D staff. Upon transfer to the white chalkboard, the paper-like product that had contained SCP-033 should be incinerated. Observation and study should take place in a secured conference room at least 30 meters from any computing or recording device, or the maximum 2,560-second viewing window. All observations or notes should be made on 033 Safe Materials. Under no circumstances should any notes regarding SCP-033 leave the storage facility or be input into a computing or recording device. At precisely 2,000 seconds of viewing, research must stop and SCP-033 should be transferred to a new 033 Safe Paper-like product and returned to storage by Class D staff. The white chalkboard utilized in research must be incinerated as soon as possible after the transfer is complete, regardless of whether SCP-033 is faded naturally from its surface at 2,560 seconds. Whether 033 Safe Procedures halt or merely slow the deleterious effects of SCP-033 is unknown. It is theorized that irregular borders and hand-crafting of mathematically unpredictable humans somehow disrupt the logic which allows SCP-033 to function. Description SCP-033 appears as a field of complex mathematical symbols ranging from simple layman-identifiable representations to those only interpretable by highly trained mathematicians. The sum of the symbols is equal to a previously unknown integer, designated Theta Prime by Professor Hutchinson of intermediate value between ██ and ██. As all modern mathematical calculations are performed lacking the knowledge or use of SCP-033, its introduction to any system organized without it begins eroding the numerical and eventually structural integrity of said system. This effect extends to SCP-033's transfer to any paper-like defined as paper, belem, papyrus, canvas, surface not possessing 033 Safe Dimensions, or any computing or recording device is input into. If inscribed in any other material, SCP-033 fades into unintelligibility in precisely 2,560 seconds. In addition, SCP-033 has shown an ability to leap from a 033 Safe Material to a manufactured or electronic material which it can destabilize in at least one instance. Incident reported 033-D, requiring the institution of a 30 meter safe distance for electronic devices and paper-like products without 033 Safe Dimensions. There is currently no 033 Safe Specification for Electronic Storage. Of the ██ operational research projects involving SCP-033 are dedicated to finding such a method for electronic storage. Operational research projects are dedicated to the application of 033 as a neutralizing factor for potentially hostile, machine-logic-based SCP objects. Clarifying commentary for Professor Hutchinson follows with non-specialists stabbed in Document 033-A. Effects may be reviewed in Document 033-Q. Document 033-A, debriefing of Professor Hutchinson after first observation. Transcript edited for clarity. Every school child knows that 2 plus 2 is 4. The solid mathematical certainty of numerical order and value is the basis for all logic-based systems. We know that after 2 comes 3, and after 3 comes 4. What this formula proves is that we missed a number somewhere. Imagine if all of our technology was based on the belief that after 4 came 6. We simply didn't know or conceive of 5, that is, in essence, what this formula proves. We missed a number. I can't tell you why the handcrafted belem works best. I can only surmise that it displaces mathematical predictability in two ways. 1. The irregularity of the crafting process due to human error serves to eliminate any traces of regularity that would be found in the machine-created product. 2. The irregular border seems to confuse it somehow, as if it gets locked up looking for a pattern to identify and use as an escape hatch. I'll tell you this, though. I don't think it should be left on anything longer than a few days. It will find a pattern eventually. I don't think it destroys anything. I think it tries integrating itself into our system, and our system can't hold it. It's like trying to cram another book into a full bookshelf. If you get a hammer, you can't get it in there, but the whole shelf bursts eventually. If it gets out onto the Internet, we will potentially experience a full IT infrastructure collapse within hours. Document 033-Q Test Results Trial 033-DELTA-5 SCP-033 is scribed onto a single sheet of standard 8.5x11 inch manufactured white copy paper hereafter X-1. A second sheet of identical paper hereafter X-2 placed 30 cm away. 80 seconds. Symbols consistent with the content of SCP-033 begin appearing on X-2. X-1 unchanged. 160 seconds. Full content of SCP-033's formulae appear on the surface of X-2. X-1 unchanged. 320 seconds. X-1, X-2 both appear wet. Symbols still visible. 640 seconds. X-1 is now roughly one part apparently water, and five parts pulp-like substance, still filling an 8.5x11 inch flat plane. Symbols become unintelligible. X-2 still appears wet. Symbols visible. 1280 seconds. X-1 no longer visible at all. Liquid part appears to have evaporated. Pulp-like substance apparently sublimated. X-2 now roughly one part liquid, and five parts pulp-like substance, still filling an 8.5x11 inch flat plane. Symbols unintelligible. 2560 seconds. X-2 no longer visible at all. Liquid part appears to have evaporated. Pulp-like substance apparently sublimated.