Love of Maths is the Square Root of All Evil

Oct 6th 2009
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I overheard a group of children complaing about having to attend an extra maths class. “I hate maths” One said, followed by their friend, “Maths is the root of all evil” An obvious misquote of the famous misquote of 1 Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” As often is the case someone then corrected them. “The Love of maths is the root of evil” Quickly followed by: “No! The love of maths is the square root of all evil” You’re probably rolling your eyes, but I found it pretty funny, so today I decided to solve the equation. So assuming that the sum of all evil is the number of the beast, 666 and that God’s love is the most perfect and the number of perfection is 7, then as you can see above Math equals 3.68. So there you have it

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http://www.abovetheinternet.org Stuart Gibson

Can we get the value for the more likely value of the beast, 616, and the first perfect number which is 6? (7 isn’t a perfect number, the next perfect number after 6 is 28 (since we’re on a maths bent and all).
http://multiverse.andrewgribben.com Andrew

If you were one of my pupils I’d complain you were being lazy not working out that answer yourself However since I love equations in the way some people love crosswords, I’ll take the bait.

So because of the supposed discrepancy of texts we should therefore take the mean of evil giving a value of 641. The number for perfect love was using the commonly accpepted Biblical number of perfection, however we could also use the golden number 1.6180339887 or like you said 6 or possibly even 23. Personally I’m weighted toward 23, however we should probably make this more fair and take the median (as I was told once that God is at the centre) with the median of 1.6180339887, 6, 7, 23 being 6.5.
Plug all those into the equation and that will give us a revised value Maths equaling 3.895
http://www.abovetheinternet.org Stuart Gibson

Darn, can we fudge the numbers to make it 3.14?
http://alaninbelfast.blogspot.com/ Alan in Belfast

Given the beauty and completeness of Euler’s Identity (incidentally, the only bit of A-level, never mind university, maths I’ve needed to use since graduating), I’m sure we’d get away with fudging the answer down to something approximating 22/7!

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