"I LOVE Frank Sinatra," the barista cries loudly and perkily over the racket of the steam wand.
"Oh, God, I KNOW," responds another indistinguishable barista, possibly a twin or a clone.
"This is Tony Bennett," I say under my breath, trying not to smirk or feel disdain. 'It's no big deal. Don't be cynical,' I direct myself. Instead, letting this and other things pass from my mind, I write the following.
The mathematical field called rational numbers is not rational in the same sense that rational people are rational. Rational numbers are called rational because they can be expressed as a ratio of two integers. In their simplest form, they are expressed as a ratio of two integers, or a common fraction, with a positive, non-zero denominator. Rational people are much more difficult to spot and come in various forms, rarely simple.
The mathematical field called real numbers is made up of both rational and irrational numbers. Real people also include both the rational people and the irrational people, though we struggle to view the irrational people as real or treat them as such.
In addition to real numbers, there are imaginary numbers, multiples of a special number representing the square root of -1. We call this number i. In this case numbers are quite different from people. Where people are concerned, everyone might be imaginary, but certainly not i.
Hello, friends. How are you today?
Later. Love.
