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Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl #1
Gossip Girl revolves around the lives of privileged teens living in New York City’s Upper East Side. The vast majority of GG’s protagonists are spiteful and superficial: they are as deep as the ink on paper after a girl signs her name with a Montblanc fountain pen.
How do you procrastinate? What do you do when bored? I, apparently, write down paradoxes.
Why is it so girly? Am I a girly girl? Perhaps—anyway, some tend to associate math with boys. I’m not a boy. I wanted to make that clear in case anyone decided to lift this image from my blog… ♥
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I was waiting for you to tell me how 2=1. I love the stationery by the way.
However… If heart= 1 then you divided by zero twice up there, and heart square is not necessarily 1, heart square is plus/minus 1.
Meh. I’m not convinced!
I want to put this up on my wall. :D
[…] This just made my day. It’s like that geeky t-shirt that says “2+2=5, for large enough values of 2″. Only this had hearts and pink stationary. […]
I procrastinate by writing down a list of what I should be doing, but are too lazy to do. Once that gets boring, I watch youtube videos. :)
@Lene: You aren’t being fun. :P Heart^2 is necessarily 1. If I took the square root of heart^2 then you’d have the negative/positive thing, but I didn’t take any square roots. If 1^2 = 1, then everything I did was legal and perfectly acceptable mathematically, yep. :P
Nooo it can’t be! :P
I’ll proof that wrong, you’ll see, someday XD
lol
I am printing this out and showing it to my dippy Algebra teacher.
As most of the maths largely went over my head (four and a half years sans mathematics tends to do that to a person…), I just wanted to say: That is such cute stationary! It looks like something I would pick up in Morning Glory, though without the bad English translation. :P
Lol it’s because you can’t divide by <3 - 1 because 1 - 1 = 0. Undefined!
you… eh.. what?! That was confusing.
Hm, but why did you divide by <3-1? on the equation above it’s <3^2-1. Am I missing something?
@Myra: XD Let me know if your teacher has any insight on the issue.
@Rilla: I can divide by anything I want. :P It’s not my fault if the math breaks down.
@Kat: I divide by ♥-1 because that break the equation. :) ♥^2-1 is a difference of squares…
I think that’s so adorable! I’m doing something like that in math (patterning with tables?) Yesh, grade eight math is so fun /sarcasm! Haha, I would much prefer you as my math teacher. I like the way you explain things with hearts and all :).
Hm… But… It was (<3-1)(<3+1) = <3^2-1, then when you divided it by <3-1 it became (<3-1)(<3+1) =<3-1
I’m definitely missing something :-P
@Kat: Ahh… I see what you mean, now. Originally, It was ♥^2 - 1 = ♥ - 1. (♥ - 1)(♥ + 1) is another way of writing ♥^2 - 1. So I replaced ♥^2 - 1 on the left side with (♥ - 1)(♥ + 1). That’s how I got (♥ - 1)(♥ + 1) = ♥ - 1.
@Yara: Thank you—unfortunately, normally I don’t explain things with hearts.
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh…. I see it now, nice ;)
Haha, that’s so clever. And I can’t believe I actually followed the math! Wow, am I retaining information from eons ago? And math, too!
It’s so cute, I only wish I was smart and clever enough to disprove “indisputable” truths.
By about the 3rd line, I was lost. As you know, I get lost in the world of math. Also, I do not want to think about it, because you know what? I just got a 61.7% on my triangle math test. :(
I can’t believe I actually got that.
Oh my, I absolutely LOVE that!!! I wish the guy I have liked for quite a while would finally notice… lol.
I got lost… and had to start over from the beginning. But I got it eventually, it’s clever!
I love the stationary. Very cute indeed! LOL! Interesting proof. :)
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