Comfort Math?

[sythyry]

[OOC rowyn gave me an icon of Feralan and hCevian!  So, as promised, they will chat. -bb]

I am hCevian writing this.

When I am upset, I generally think about hyperbolic geometry to calm down.  When Feralan is upset, he often contemplates arithmetic or polynomial sequences of numbers. 

What kind of mathematics do you find most comforting?  Or, if not mathematics, what other thoughts comfort you when you are downcast or distressed?

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[elorie.livejournal.com]

My father, who was in the invasion of Normandy by Allied forces in World War II (a huge military operation, the largest in history), calmed himself by calculating the distance of one of the battleships* out in the Channel. He did so by counting the number of seconds between when he saw the guns fire and heard the report.


*USS Texas. It was two miles out.