Significant Digits
We erased away all of the zeroes,
The nothingness that floated away,
Into space or somewhere just as grand,
Or to a grave, in a far off distant land.
We hand picked the numbers worth keeping,
The few that defined value, a sense of placement,
And moved them to the front, with all of those,
Wasted zeroes multiplied behind the ones we chose.
And this new, tiny, number we had found,
Came to represent something greater than our minds could obtain.
For when the foundation of science is no longer sound,
The silence still remains.
The End
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All of these poems relate to either a mathematical concept (such as significant digits or division) or a number in particular, such as 2 describing a couple, or a physical constant. Be creative! But please try to stay relevant to the topic as well as the over-arching theme.
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was posted on Aug 9, 2010 by
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