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Gabe Feathers McGee 
You don’t have to do the math – haha – but if you do, you are not allowed to use a calculator (as mine ran out of batteries and it was a pain in the watsisname).
I know a number of maths geeks who would love this. Right up their street. Very, very cool!
Thanks Selma 🙂 it started with the word cold and than I just let my fingers do the walking – the OCD in me was trying to match the number of letters and then I realised that couldn’t happen with a three letter word in the second half and than I got to thinking about ice and how you never end up with the same amount of fluid when it changes state – haha – and I just like the absurdity of a letter evaporating – glad you got it 😉
they talk about math-rock, now you have created math-lit! very cool,
Thanks Graham – I’d never heard of math-rock so I looked it up – ha!
I had to turn off the taps before I went batty!
8×8=64 colds
10×5=50 hots
+14 hots = 64 hots
+21 hots = 85 hots
85 hots + 64 colds = 149 lukewarms.
All I can think of that is special about 149 is; it is a prime number and that is, well, probably cool!
Haha 😉 I did the same thing as you in the beginning and was counting the words instead of the letters and getting all annoyed 😉
and there is also the degree (literally ha ha) of difference in the perception distinguishing between hot and cold. like where moderate becomes moderately cold etc. colder in comparison but not just cold. or maybe just cold ha ha. or maybe just hot.
i probably dont get it but i like the number 64, it is the last number in the i ching, it signifies an ending followed by a new beginning. cold turns to hot and vice versa.
anyway, its amazing how this piece works on so many levels, visually as well as mathematically and now even philosophically or spiritually even
Thanks tipota – yes, it is very strange but after I wrote it my brain has still been trying to figure it out (maybe my writing brain is separate from my math brain – haha) and still it is producing stuff – like the cold is up the top (like where you guys are up North) and hot downunder 😉 and the 64 stood out, so I couldn’t change that number – and I was thinking about it, because I had to change the number of letters to match each grouop as closely as possible. I will have a look at your link – thanks tipota 🙂
This is the new Australian Abacus and it’s based on temperature and it was devised by a well known Aussie Mother/Poet Gabrielle Bryden who discovered it one day while working in her lab on the extremes of temperature and the distance between the two dependent upon seasonal shifts. :0 I like, I like. My girl Faye liked it too who gives this her math geek seal of approval.
Haha – thanks Val 🙂 my kids loved it too (I think the trick is to take it whatever way you want – I like the abacus thingy. Say hi to Faye and tell her thanks for getting it.
Fantastic – a poetry brain teaser!
I wish I could have deducted a few more from the ‘hot’ section over the weekend … I thought I was going to melt and evaporate away … 😉
Yes, it was way too hot for thinking Tracey 😉
here it is cold cold cold cold cold old old old
but in a few month we will have hot hot hot hot too!
Haha – yes, I was thinking of my Northern blog friends when writing this – with your teeth chattering in the cold, cold, cold … 😉