What would it be like to be Bloody Stupid Johnson's apprentice?

There are certain laws that took math geniuses years to identify, and, as such, are unarguable.

1.) Addition and subtraction are not interchangeable.

2.) Pi = 3.14159.

3.) The smallest side of a triangle is opposite the smallest angle.

4.) The angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.

…and so on.

Bloody Stupid Johnson had already done away with law 2. Currently laws 1, 3, and 4 were bothering him.

Actually, his apprentice was bothering him.

"I don't see why the angles can't equal 360 degrees."

The apprentice furrowed his brow in thought, "Cause it's not possible?"

"Of course it is. Here, look." BSJ then promptly drew…something. It certainly looked like a triangle. It was, in essence, a triangle, but there was something off about it. It may have been the way that the longest side was opposite the smallest angle. The apprentice took out a protractor and measured the angles*, held it up to the light, twisted it, then measured it over again.

"How-" He paused, then asked the only question that his engineer's mind threw out, "What was the equation you used?" BSJ pushed a long and complicated equation towards him, and he looked at it in awe. He then latched on to the one problem he could easily discern.

"Why'd you mess up here? You changed the addition to subtraction."

"I didn't mess up. That was the only way to make the equation work."

The apprentice looked up at BSJ, then at the triangle, then over at the equation, then back at BSJ. He slowly stood up.

The screaming didn't stop echoing in the room for five minutes after the apprentice was gone. BSJ just shook his head dispassionately. "Some people weren't meant to be architects."

He waited until he read about the explosion inside the Alchemist Guild in which one person, male, unidentified, had been killed, to post a letter which started,

"To My Lord,

I regret to inform you of the untimely death of my most recent apprentice. I realize that he was the fifth…"

* All 90 degrees.

Very short, I know. However, I hope you enjoyed it, and would absolutely love if you took the time to review it! Many thanks!