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Zero Point Zero

Cero coma cero

Buenos Aires, 2074: an algorithm has scored every citizen for forty years without a single anomaly. This year it handed a 22-year-old muralist a number that, statistically speaking, cannot exist.

Part 1 of 3 in The Incalculable

La funcionaria golpeó el costado de la terminal con la palma abierta, como quien sacude una radio vieja. «Tiene que ser un fallo del sistema», murmuró. «Espera, voy a reiniciar».

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