As someone who wears socks, I’m proud to say, I’m someone who washes socks regularly (I hope this applies to you as well). For years I have noticed a recurring phenomenon involving the gradual disappearance of socks, making once useful pairs, awkward singles. It tends to be a slow occurring process taking months or even years, but just as reliable and unforgiving as the IRS. Recently it affected a pair of socks I’m particularly fond of, the victim being the left partner. After exhaustive investigations of all laundry hampers, closet drawers, and yes, even my basement’s nooks and crannies, I had to accept the fact that socks are not exempt from mathematics. The number of complete pairs of socks “s” will approach 0 as the number of laundry cycles “f(s)” approaches infinity.
Formula:
lim f(s) = ∞
s→0
Who knew that freshman’s Calculus would come to hunt me in the laundry basket?
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