As a maths major, let me tell you that the pickup line "What is your favorite prime number?" is a high-risk, high-reward strategy. Most of the time, it doesn't work at all, but if does, it does.
What's even more amazing is that the candy seller actually made the molecule-shaped candies!
A traditional Japanese craftsman does not back down from a challenge!
The heart formula was "cringe" but so cute man jaja
Actually... does that formula really work like that?
Or is the heart shape an artistic liberty?
I'm not good at math, so I have no clue. Somebody good at math tell me.
It does work like that
You can even do it in Desmos if you convert it into its closed form first: \sqrt{1-x^{2}}+x^{\frac{2}{3}} and -\sqrt{1-x^{2}}+x^{\frac{2}{3}}. You have to do it in two lines to get both halves of the heart (upper and lower) because square root function is messy like that. ±\sqrt{1-x^{2}} is basically the formula of a unit circle in the Cartesian plane, and x^2/3 is a cube root of x squared, which produces a pretty V/bird shape (you can achieve similar results with |x| or anything with a cusp, really). A linear combination of the bird shape with the individual upper and lower semicircles is what creates the heart shape. It is not a particularly complicated formula, but its implicit form is very clever.
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