Somethings been bugging me recently. And by recently I mean something has been bugging me for the last 5 minutes. Maybe you can help me out?
Why is it always 2 + 2 that equals 4?
And before you think that i'm getting all 1984 on you, i'm not. Of course 2 + 2 equals 4, but the point is so does 3 +1. And why is the answer 4 anyway? Why not simplify the work down a little bit more? Why isn't the line 1 + 1 makes 2, or 2 + 1 makes 3? Hell, i think that the majority of the conscious world would even be able to sit down down and work out what i meant if i pushed the saying to 3 + 3 is 6 or, God forbid, 5 + 5 is ten. This is simple arithmetic after all. I even think my three year old sister could manage it, if I could drag her away from The Teletubbies, or the Tweenies, or what ever crap they play the leaders of tomorrow to turn their mind into mush.
So, to summarize, 'I'm the type of guy who can never make 2 + 2 equal 4, not if i can make 5 + 5 equal ten.
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so... the bigger the better?
i've always said that size matters
I reckon it's cos 2 is [contrary to popular opinion which prefers to bestow the accolade on 3] a somewhat magic number.
In the equation, 2 + 2 = 4 there are many things at play which can be found to make it altogether pleasing...
All the variables are even numbers. That is to say, they are multiples of 2.
2 is also prime.
Not only does 2+2=4, 2^2=4 [ie. 2squared or 2 raised to the power of 2, also equals 4]
The repetion of 2 also makes the balance aesthetically rather wonderful.
2 makes people happy. Though, ironically, by posting my comment i shall be increasing the number of comments to 3. Alas. Now someone must bring it to 4 so that order is returned to the world.
I miss maths. I is geek x
//sidenote, apologies for being pedantic but you've got a "they're" instead of "their" in there. a quick edit it n it's like it never happened ;)
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2 is the smallest even number aside from 0 which is far too depressing. No one likes odd numbers. They're weird!
is it because the number 2 looks a bit like a swan
Good words.
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