Bart was in love. He’d spend the time between interminably long phone calls mooching around and texting, as those in love sometimes do. He would wait, and then… The phone was never answered before with such speed lightning.
Donna was her name. They were both studying Mathematics at university. They shared the same mathematical problems on the phone. They shared the same solutions. Mathematics was never so superficial.
It was like life; they invented problems so they could solve them together. Things went swimmingly until Donna suggested:
f(x)=a_0+∑_(n=1)^∞▒(a_n cos〖nπx/L〗+b_n sin〖nπx/L〗 )
In response, last Thursday, Bart came up with:
cosα+cosβ=2 cos〖1/2 (α+β)〗 cos〖1/2 (α-β)〗
Quite frankly Donna had had enough. She was fed up to the eyeballs. She called the whole thing off.
Is it sort of like saying tomato and tomahto?
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I’m not sure but I think tomato juice has a slightly different formula.
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I done graddy-ated from the 6th grade and I know my gazintas. You know, 2 gazinta 4 two times. 3 gazinta 9 three times. That’s the highest math I know.
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That’s brilliant, Herb. And I had to Google what gazinta was – so you’re better at Math(s) than me.
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I hope it led you to Jethro Bodine, a character on the Beverly Hillbillies.
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Jethro was my favorite.
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Oh, Bart, you made such an classical error! (Or, should that be classic?)
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All these little things add up.
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They tend to muliply.
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That equates.
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It can be variable, of course.
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In my experience, nearly every relationship problem can be traced back to trigonometry!
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That’s very calculus of you.
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Nice! LOL
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It’s all greek to me.
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Well that goodness it’s not double dutch.
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Or Low German.
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You would encounter quite a bit of German blood in Wisconsin would you not??
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I let comments like that slide as a rule,
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I like slide rules. Low German is a mixture of dutch and pidgin English spoken by the Amish.
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I escaped 10th grade by the skin of my teeth and have never looked back since at Mathematics, even in stories.
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That adds up.
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I have measured out my life in equations
I know the numbers dying with a dying fall –
Bart (post breakup)
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I wonder what Bart would’ve said if he had quoted Ezra Pound and not Eliot!
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Something very indecipherable but profoundly meaningful (to the critics and the Nazis!).
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LOL! Agreed!
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