Be Rational
Please enjoy the first five songs of, "Be Rational." The second half will be released after Log: A Rhythm. is complete!
- Though there will always be more,
- the set of rationals is small,
- Infinity is big you thought
- but Cantor says it’s Aleph naught!
- Top and bottom,
- if you got’em,
- you’re my cup of tea!
- Some go on forever
- with no reason so bizarre!
- Don’t append IR!
- Just be rational.
- πs and es, and sines and bees,
- I just can’t comprehend,
- No need to transcend!
- Just be Rational!
- To Be Rational
- you gotta be A over B
- where B is any integer
- except for Zero:
- the exception king.
- Radicals aren’t radical,
- Unless they terminate.
- Please don’t be Irate,
- Just be Rational
- Five fourths? Quite right.
- Phi? If I were ossified!
- To Be Rational
- you gotta be A over B
- where B is any integer
- except for Zero:
- the exception king.
- Dreamers, Schemers,
- Darting is one moment to the next,
- Don’t be so complex,
- Just Be Rational!
- So wear your boots
- and end your roots,
- at least make them repeat!
- Keep it nice and neat,
- keep it rational!
- Just be Rational.
- So fashionable.
- Belts look good on you.
- It’s so rational and reasonable
- you’ll never ever please ‘em all
- descending to the deepest
- and then falling from the sky.
- Like a shovel beam insisting,
- there is really no resisting,
- it’s dividing into nothing
- lowest low and highest high.
- It is not for me, Continuity!
- Continuity, it is not for me!
- Rising up from deep depression
- the increase will always lessen,
- 'til each day seems less and less
- unpleasant from the days of past.
- Always upward you are ranging
- though it seems that nothing’s changing
- and the strangest of the strange thing
- is the place you’ll never pass.
- Limits wait for me, at infinity!
- At infinity, Limits wait for me!
- You're so rational and reasonable
- you’ll never ever please ‘em all
- descending to the deepest
- and then falling from the sky.
- Asymptotically ambivalent!
- No equal or equivalent!
- The ultimate in Insolent!
- Defining Undefined.
- We’re closer everyday,
- and yet so far away.
- I feel the space between,
- a barrier unseen.
- But I…But I…But I found out something ‘bout you!
- You say it’s meant to be,
- yet stand there so distantly.
- You say you love me more,
- I’m not so very sure.
- ‘Cause I…‘Cause I…‘Cause I found out something ‘bout you!
- You’re an Asymptote!
- You tease me and you’ll never quit the game.
- You’re an Asymptote!
- And your behavior’s driving me insane!
- Maybe at the end of time,
- I will finally know your touch,
- and I’m sure it is sublime,
- but I’m limiting this crush.
- So remove yourself from me, you discontinuity.
- But you stand your ground as the upper bound,
- and whisper so softly:
- A hole I’m not.
- Maybe you have got,
- the wrong idea my pal.
- It’s our destiny, an eternity,
- side by side, get comfortable.
- And I know I’m not,
- very good – so what –
- at being rational.
- I’ll leave that to you,
- maybe while you do,
- look at who we are.
- I’ll leave that to you,
- maybe while you do,
- look at who’s creepin’ on who.
- Factor Top and Factor bottom,
- Look for zeroes on the top!
- Downstairs zeroes are restricted,
- Continuity will stop.
- Factor Top and Factor bottom,
- Cancelation may occur.
- Holes appear from points removed!
- But cancelling builds character.
- The limits at infinity are where you’ll find,
- The horizontal asymptotes, but keep in mind:
- It’s possible to cross an asymptotic guide,
- Specifically the ones found lying on their side.
- To find the limits at infinity,
- just isolate the highest order terms:
- One term on top and one on bottom,
- Cancel common factors of them:
- If no x is left then you are done.
- But if an x is below then the limit must be zero,
- x on top grows up to be infinity.
- Factor Top and Factor bottom,
- What you can’t remove will act,
- As a strange mathematic fiction
- When it’s zero, that’s a -
- Factor Top and Factor bottom,
- What you can’t remove, denote:
- Two words sitting at the bottom,
- Vertical and Asymptote.
- Vertical and Asymptote.
- Vertical and Asymptote!
- Robert Boyle packing clothes.
- Suitcase bulging at the seams.
- An attempt to make it close:
- Apply the pressure liberally.
- And it seems the idea transferred,
- Raise the pressure, drop the volume.
- But the ideal is unanswered,
- Maybe somewhere it is out there.
- Guillaume Amontons,
- Boiling water in a pot.
- Heavy lid popping up,
- Water vapor getting hot.
- And it seems the idea transferred,
- Hotter gas has higher pressure!
- But the ideal is unanswered,
- Maybe someone else will get there?
- Jacques Charles out in the cold!
- Snowpants! He is shivering.
- Red balloon on a string,
- Gradually is shriveling.
- And it seems the idea transferred,
- Colder gas has lower volume!
- But the ideal still unanswered,
- Must be someone else’s problem.
- So temperature is related to:
- The pressure and the volume,
- Also it seems the amount of moles
- To count the gas’s molecules.
- That occupy the entire space,
- From which the gas cannot escape.
- Related all by a constant R.
- Are you sure? It’s 8.314…
- Lorenzo Romano Amedeo
- Lacquisha Carlo
- Avogadro di Quaregna
- e di Cerreto traded Moles.
- And I guess the idea transferred,
- Equal moles have equal volume.
- But the ideal is unanswered,
- Will it stay an unsolved problem.
- Monsoir Clapeyron comes on the scene!
- Uniting laws with gassy themes:
- It’s on the wall
- you hear him scream!
- P times V is n R T
- It’s P for pressure, V for vol.
- n the number of the mol.
- T’s temperature and it’s in Degrees,
- Kelvin says he agrees - he agrees
- R you sure it's eight point three...
- One four.
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