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As I logged into Gmail today and saw the latest Gproduct release, my mind bumped a bit against the marketing phrase of, “Simplicity Squared.” If simplicity is something truly reductive, were you to mathematically raise it to the second power and square it I wondered if you’d end up where you really want to go.
Consider how when you square a number like 5 you get 25 (bigger), or if you square 3 you get 9 (bigger). But once you hit the number 1 = “true simplicity” and you square 1 you get 1 (the same). Go below 1 like 0.75 and square 0.75 to get 0.5625 (smaller), or square 0.2 and you get 0.04 (smaller). Ah, so the square of simplicity is truly more simple. The universe is well and I can now go back to preparing for my London exhibition.
5 Responses to “Simplicity Squared”
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> “if you square 3 you get 3 (bigger)”
Er…
“1″ is “simple”… but is “0.5625″ simpler or just smaller?
In .2^2 = .004 it (IMO) keeps some kind of “simplicity”, but I’m not sure.
One thing is “simplicity” and other is “keep it simple”.
GMail –I think– has both.
Thanks for fixing my math Paul
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It’s a mathematical Sunday for me. Regards, John
I do not believe this. It may be one of April fool’s joke by Google.
It is not eco-friendly!
Thanks, my students let me know. I’m always the last to know … John