{"id":8164,"date":"2012-04-27T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2012-04-27T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T19:25:30","slug":"emoticomputing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=8164","title":{"rendered":"Emoticomputing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematician friend of mine, when chatting on-line, types the emoticon &#8220;<3\" to indicate \"love\".  This two-character sequence looks quite a bit like a heart lying on its side.  In fact, many chat clients automatically convert this character sequence into a heart icon.\n\nAt some point it occurred to me that there is a certain poetry to this particular representation.  Not only does it visually suggest the shape of a heart, but its mathematical meaning is, precisely, \"less than three\" -- an interesting assertion when applied to love.\n\nThe next time you type this emoticon, you might want to consider that on some level you are asserting that love is just for two.<sup>&dagger;<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>A corollary theorem, as my mathematician friend might put it, is that you should never get involved with somebody who is already dating someone else.<\/p>\n<p><3\n\n<small>&dagger; &#8220;Less than three&#8221; can also refer to &#8220;one&#8221;.  I am sure you will agree, mathematically speaking, that falling in love with oneself is merely reducing to the trivial case.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematician friend of mine, when chatting on-line, types the emoticon &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}