<\/span>Few these days remember to ask,<\/p>\n How many angels can dance<\/p>\n on the point of a pin?<\/p>\n Angels have no more dimensions<\/p>\n Than points in a line.<\/p>\n They take up no space,<\/p>\n Though they do take up time,<\/p>\n No matter what number you pick,<\/p>\n More angels always come to dance.<\/p>\n Never make fun of those who ask<\/p>\n How dimensionless points<\/p>\n can add up to a line.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A woman mathematician once<\/p>\n Took me out to lunch\u2014because that\u2019s<\/p>\n The sort of rare breed women<\/p>\n mathematicians are\u2014to\u00a0 tell me<\/p>\n I think of numbers like a poet,<\/p>\n Not a mathematician. She said,<\/p>\n \u201cGo major in poetry and be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n I wish I could remember her name.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n So I divide by zero all the time.<\/p>\n The answer is always infinite.<\/p>\n Those who call infinity meaningless<\/p>\n Seem to merely fear its implications.<\/p>\n Given an infinity of dimensionless points,<\/p>\n Like flocks of angels coming endlessly to dance,<\/p>\n They become a length, a height, a width<\/p>\n (Exact numbers need a different sleight of hand),<\/p>\n Because infinity times zero equals everything<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Few these days remember to ask, How many angels can dance on the point of a pin? Angels have no more dimensions Than points in a line. They take up no space, Though they do take up time, No matter what number you pick, More angels always come to dance. Never make fun of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1232],"tags":[67,216,372],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-angels","tag-infinity","tag-mathematics"],"yoast_head":"\n