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WORDLE GRAPH
Ode to a Coordinate Plane
To graph is to understand
In the beginning there is the point, representing a number and a place in time and space or in whatever dimensions have been designated. Whether in one, two, three or more dimensions it is but a simple dot in the universe. Before dot com or even dot matrix, this was the beginning of a GRAPH.
From there, we bring forward other dimensions, usually the second or even the third and our information grows to infinity. The dot can stretch to line, wave, or parabola each with its own unique equation and set of solutions.
The beauty of the graph is that it brings the infinite onto our paper in front of our very eyes. It encompasses not only the easy, whole-number solutions favored by students and teachers alike, but also the irrational, difficult, and sometimes even the imaginary. It floats to infinity, and at the same time conveys the smallest of the infinitesimal.
It is beauty, it is symmetry, it is functional, informational, and organized. It is a picture of a concept too broad and infinite for imagining, yet simple enough for a child to draw and understand. It is the graphical representation of a universal language and a vision of ideas known and unknown.
It is GRAPH.
Thanks NYTCo Communications
