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2 June 2005: Sometime in the past two days I had an idea for a long division poem: it was to cut a dividend shed (the thing the dividend is in) out of some famous poem I like. Then divide something into it. I got stuck there. I like the thought of making the shed important, even central to a mathemaku. But I can't think what would be meant by one's being made of a paom, or an excerpt from a poem. Something going in through something? The process being more important than what's processed? The importance of a form? There's something there urging me to exploit it, but I can't pin it down.
Later thought: a series of poems showing how the shape and/or color and/or other attribute of the shed affects the answer to the problem. My first fragment of an idea was that a shed whose walls were thick and which left little room for the dividend, would squash and therefore change the value of it, which would mean the divisor or the quotient would have to be larger. . . .
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