Category Archives: Math

Thermodynamics and girlfriends

I came across an article recently, it was about Drakes equation an the number of potential girlfriends in London. That lead me to a similarly  paper that states:    Since it is much more likely to have a girlfriend, we can suppose that in a random system (one without social standards, fear or psychological complexes) nearly everybody would have [...]

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a=b a²=ab 2a²=a²+ab 2a²-2ab=a²-ab 2a(a-b)=a(a-b) 2a=a 2=1