Approaching Perfection

Approaching Perfection

 

Like poetry

Stepwise by approximation

Using words stacked together

Fewer = poetic

But the polar opposite is true when slicing a multivariate function into infinitesimal portions

Almost there

But always traveling.

 

A virtuosic symphony

Is strung from motifs

Flowing like a cascading waterfall,

Black notes summoning droplets,

That converge into roaring thunder

Or fly in a light, chirping trance

Reverberating

Ebbing to a deep, desperate melody

As the nuances of boundless notes

Assemble into a masterpiece.                                             

 

Or a portrait, coaxed into being from delicate brushstrokes

Or, perhaps, loose geometric symbols

The style and the strokes

Summoning a moment in time

Meticulous intricacies approximate it

And let the viewer determine the rest.

 

You can integrate using Newtons’ best

(with a symbol vaguely resembling a treble clef)

To put Archimedes’ quandary to the test

Polygons approaching the fundamental enigma

Of smoothing to a circle, equidistant radii

Sides snapping to infinitesimally small portions, dx

Each providing a piece of smooth topology.

 

The best computers

Can calculate pi to trillions

Trillions of tiny notes

Cascading endlessly

To describe a fundamental perfection of the universe

That digits can only approximate

The musical symphony

The masterpiece

The circumference

(divided by diameter)

π