mathaiku
I came up with the idea of writing math haikus with a twist. Instead of 5,7, and 5 syllable lines, the number of syllables is indicated by a row in Pascal’s Triangle. The following is my first one, written in 1 4 6 4 1.
e
raised to the i
furthermore raised to pi
plus one equals
none
Brilliant.
By the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don’t really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you’re only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.
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I don’t know the source.
the most powerful thing about this is that looking at karkat’s eyes you could see he was more than ready to kill gamzee. Those were the eyes of a man who knew kill or be killed but at the last second he chose otherwise.
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