Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department

The Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department is a nomadic collective of research mathematicians who live autonomously in vehicles in the vast desert surrounding the Hellmouth. They prefer their full title, "Hellmouth Community College Mathematics Department," to the shorter "Mathematics Department," but will accept either. However, under no circumstances should they ever be referred to as the "Math Department." If you do, they will show up outside of your home and harangue you with advanced mathematics.

The Mathematics Department consists primarily of number theorists, although occasionally mathematicians from other branches are invited to join the collective. The Mathematics Department shuns any practical applications of mathematics - the fewer applications that a branch of mathematics has, the more highly prized it is. As a result, the Mathematics Department is hopelessly incapable of basic repairs, determining water or food consumption rates, or managing personal finances.

Rules are taken very seriously in the Mathematics Department, and the first rule of the Mathematics Department is that no one is ever allowed to write a decimal number. In one notable incident, a group of mathematicians were banished for life from the collective when they were caught sharing volumes of tables of physical properties of steam - hundreds of pages of tables filled with decimal numbers. The Mathematics Department sealed the books in a lead-lined container, buried them deep in the desert (they weren't sure how deep, but it could surely be represented by using an integer larger than 10), and placed permanent, passive markers capable of surviving extreme desert climates for hundreds of years, with the purpose of warning future generations of the extremely noxious material buried beneath.