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Love isn't prime
No doubt, love is composite -
you can't love on your own.
Two factors are always needed to get it:
two primes, multiplied by each other -
like you and me.
Best, we're not too different -
thus twin primes.
But are there indefinitely many?
Nobody knows yet.
So it is with love,
but hope still grows.
you can't love on your own.
Two factors are always needed to get it:
two primes, multiplied by each other -
like you and me.
Best, we're not too different -
thus twin primes.
But are there indefinitely many?
Nobody knows yet.
So it is with love,
but hope still grows.
Published 12th Aug 2014
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12th Aug 2014 7:47pm
So you're saying each individual lover is like a prime number? As in individuals are their own unique person even though they were made from love? I agree!
Also, I think prime numbers have the same cardinality as the natural numbers, as well as the rational numbers, so by that logic I believe that there are countably infinitely many primes (and individuals who can love).
I really like this poem because it involves love and math, two of my favorite things :)
Also, I think prime numbers have the same cardinality as the natural numbers, as well as the rational numbers, so by that logic I believe that there are countably infinitely many primes (and individuals who can love).
I really like this poem because it involves love and math, two of my favorite things :)
Thanks for commenting on the poem so extensively. :-)
I think you can drive the analogy even further:
Considered, Goldbach's conjecture holds true, then you can create every number (including the prime ones!) >2 by adding 2 primes, i.e. getting children. These primes grow up and will later fall in love with each other, etc.
Quod erat demonstrandum. :-) :-)
I think you can drive the analogy even further:
Considered, Goldbach's conjecture holds true, then you can create every number (including the prime ones!) >2 by adding 2 primes, i.e. getting children. These primes grow up and will later fall in love with each other, etc.
Quod erat demonstrandum. :-) :-)
12th Aug 2014 9:51pm
12th Aug 2014 9:57pm
definitely a lesson from you sodium and so early in the morning for me.......
maths, never has been my area of expertise....so i'm not even going to go there....OK?..
but i do like the way you have melded it in with what i feel is quite a romantic write...
'so it is with love but hope still grows...' beautiful lines...
but i need to say....you can't help who you fall in love with...so you may be quite different from each other...doesn't that make life exciting? :)
maths, never has been my area of expertise....so i'm not even going to go there....OK?..
but i do like the way you have melded it in with what i feel is quite a romantic write...
'so it is with love but hope still grows...' beautiful lines...
but i need to say....you can't help who you fall in love with...so you may be quite different from each other...doesn't that make life exciting? :)
12th Aug 2014 10:15pm
Of course!
I've described theory, you've described practice. Fortunately, there are infinitely many primes, we simply don't know about their twins. So, hope steadily grows... :-) :-)
I've described theory, you've described practice. Fortunately, there are infinitely many primes, we simply don't know about their twins. So, hope steadily grows... :-) :-)
