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As the first blog entry got exhausted. My second book

Evolution of Love Part 2
February 4, 2022 at 10:02am
February 4, 2022 at 10:02am
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Mathematician Ramanujam didn’t have any close friends- someone asked him the reason. He replied that although he wanted to have close friends -nobody was up to his expectations. When pressed how he expected his friend to be - he replied - like numbers 220 and 284!
The person got confused and asked what is the connection between friendship and these numbers!
Ramanujam asked him to find the divisors of each number!
With much difficulty - the person derived and listed them
220 → 1,2,4,5,10,11,20,22,44,55,110,220

284 →1,2,4,71,142,284
Ramanujam then asked the person to exclude the numbers 220 and 284 and asked the sum of the remaining divisors
The person was astonished to find:
220 → 1+2+4+5+10+11+20+22+44+55+110=284

284 →1+2+4+71+142=220

Ramanujam explained that an ideal friendship should be like these numbers- to complement each other - even when one is absent - the other should represent the friend!
The person thought - no wonder this genius is on the world’s top list of mathematicians!!
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