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| + | :I think the better reading is: | ||
| + | :*What is the root of love? (i.e. Where does love come from?) | ||
| + | :*What are the signs of love? (Sine is a periodic function, and laypeople would confuse sin(heart) with sinning against love) | ||
| + | :*How do you derive love? | ||
| + | :*How do you identify love? (i.e. How do you know when you've fallen in love? How do you know when someone truly loves you?) | ||
| + | :The last one is a bit harder to interpret. Possible interpretations include: | ||
| + | :*What is the frequency/wavelength of love? | ||
| + | :*How often do you fall in love? | ||
| + | :*How do you transform love? | ||
| + | :*What is the spectrum of love? (gay, straight, bi, asexual, &c.) | ||
| + | :*How do you find love analytically? | ||
| + | :Randall Munroe would likely consider the possibility of multiple interpretations of the last one to be a feature, not a bug. | ||
| + | :I worry that most xkcd readers would not realize that Munroe is posing specific questions. | ||
| + | :—DrDnar [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.27|173.245.56.27]] 22:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC) | ||
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There seems to me to be a philosophical monologue going on here: What is the root of love? What is the angle of love? What is the derivative of love? What is the identity of love?
Unfortunately, I don't know much about the Fourier transform, so I'm at a loss for describing it in layman's terms. Anyone wanna lend a hand?
204.16.25.236 16:59, 13 February 2013 (UTC)MagnusVortex
- I think the better reading is:
- What is the root of love? (i.e. Where does love come from?)
- What are the signs of love? (Sine is a periodic function, and laypeople would confuse sin(heart) with sinning against love)
- How do you derive love?
- How do you identify love? (i.e. How do you know when you've fallen in love? How do you know when someone truly loves you?)
- The last one is a bit harder to interpret. Possible interpretations include:
- What is the frequency/wavelength of love?
- How often do you fall in love?
- How do you transform love?
- What is the spectrum of love? (gay, straight, bi, asexual, &c.)
- How do you find love analytically?
- Randall Munroe would likely consider the possibility of multiple interpretations of the last one to be a feature, not a bug.
- I worry that most xkcd readers would not realize that Munroe is posing specific questions.
- —DrDnar 173.245.56.27 22:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
I believe the last one is:
What is the frequency of love?
-JD 132.3.25.79 18:02, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
For those of you who have used Mathematica, if you replace the heart with "Indeterminate", you'll find yourself in a similar situation: essentially all functions of Indeterminate yield Indeterminate. It can be frustrating. --Quicksilver (talk) 20:11, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
It is clear that the author has yet to study non-linear dynamics as this approach has already been covered in
Strogatz, S. H. (1988) Love affairs and differential equations. Math. Magazine 61,35. Strogatz, S. H. (1994) Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering. (Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts)
One is forced to conclude that love is chaotic.
-Boyd 160.5.148.8 07:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
