A UNITY THAT CANNOT BE UNITED

ALL IS WELL...

Ichi pecking alone. The mathematical value is blocked. The girl cursed. But all sorts of insults were not revealed in class. He may be hired and suspension may not participate again in Mathematics without time that is not determined by the students.

Want to squeeze the paper, the girl did not dare. The math maple teacher had each student bring the paper home to be signed by a parent representative of each student.

But showing the replay paper whose value is blocked, is the same as feeding the head to the mouth of a lioness who is full of anger. The girl was not playing. Ichi is not required by the father to be able to win every maple that exists. But what the father wants is perfect mastery of the learning material itself.

"Don't chase points. But pursue understanding. You will understand perfection if you understand a science." said the father many times in every meeting with Ichi. The girl understood it completely.

But his mother did not embrace the system of thought that embraced his father. The mother is accustomed to victory so that a defeat, a single speck will make herself inflamed.

Middle tangled faced a dilemma, a greeting sounded. Ichi. There, leaning Faisal Hussein looked at him with a smile.

"Why is his face so tangled?" reprimand Faisal. "The beauty will be gone."

Ichi's face still frowned. The girl stepped closer to Faisal and sat down on the side of the gazebo. The young man moved his body closer to the gazebo where Ichi was sitting while looking at the mathematical paper. He sat next to the girl, looked at the paper a little and nodded.

"It's falling down?" faisal muttered softly.

Ichi just grunted.

"Ah... relax, Ichi." said Faisal. "It's not doomsday, is it?"

"If you don't understand the conditions, don't advise the things that make me more eneg!" said Ichi with ketus.

"Why indeed? How did his face get so tangled? The beauty is gone." said Faisal again with a face that remained calm.

Ichi turned to look at him, "Sir Fais, not funny!" he added ketus.

"Okey, now tell me. What's up?" faisal asked softly.

Ichi could not bear to scold the young man. He then explained the background of why he had scolded the maple.

"Who knows this math?! make the world more complicated! If there's no math, the world is safer!" nagel Ichi.

Faisal laughs. "It is precisely mathematics that facilitates the life of Ichi. Imagine if the numbers were not found. What symbols do we count? It is impossible not to use the alphabet."

"But I hate it so much. If the calculations were simple, I might be able to finish them. But if it's formulas whose models have been like cako-cako, my eyes, also my brain, also twisted too. Fuck is right.." he said then looked at Faisal, "Who the hell met mathematics first?!"

Faisal smiled. "God." he answered short and densely.

"Yeee.. that's also I know!" gerutu Ichi, "I mean, who's the scientist who met this math?!"

"Sathematics is not the language of scientists. Mathematics was first discussed by the philosophers. Mathematics comes from the Greek vocabulary, mathematics which means subjects. Mathema is a matter of discussion of logic or mantiq discussed by the philosophers using the symbols of numbers." said Faisal then throw a smile to Ichi.

Immediately Ichi's interest in history appeared. His face immediately sparkled. "Keep the explanation dong." demanded Ichi then put up a sitting attitude ready to be lectured.

Faisal raised his eyebrows then smiled looking at the attitude of the girl. He was pleased with the girl because Ichi liked to hear the most offensive material about history, about origins. The young man then explained again.

"Thales of Miletus, also Pythagoras of Samos is recognized as the first to discuss mathematics in any discussion of his philosophy with his disciples. Pythagoras himself traveled to Sumeria and Egypt just to study the calculations, geometry and astronomy of Egyptian priests" Faisal said.

"Well! they both seem to be the ones who have to digganyang for daring to publish mathematics to the public until then famous in the world! Just hang. I'll meet them later and I swear by them both." scold Ichi while raising his fists.

Faisal laughs. "Not listening to me?" angled.

Ichi lowered his fist then looked at Faisal. "Forward the explanation, brother." she asked.

Faisal reconnected, "Thales used geometry to calculate the height of the pyramid and the distance of his own boat from the shoreline. Thales was the first to use deductive reasoning in geometry. He proposed his idea in the form of Thales' theorem."

"If the Pythagoreans?" ask Ichi.

"Pythagoras conceived the idea with the sentence everything is a number. With that sentence, he claimed that mathematics is the main element in the universe." his answer made Ichi nodded and then snorted.

"They both deserve my condemnation" Ichi said with a face made as fierce as possible to make Faisal laugh.

"It is not just them that you should swear." said Faisal, "There are still Eudoxos, Aristotle, Euclides, Eratosthenes, Archimedes of Syracuse and many more. You will be tired of cursing them one by one." he said then laughed at the silliness of Ichi.

"What do they do in mathematics?" tukas Ichi's.

"Eudoksos whimpers the theory of integration, Aristotle discusses the science of logic by using mathematical formulas. Specially? Euclid? He was a pioneer of definitions, axioms, theorems and proofs as well as conical calculations. Euclid wrote the book of mathematics, The element which deals with the proof of the square root of two is irrational and how infinite the prime numbers were once discussed by Eratosthenes." faisal replied making Ichi sigh again.

"Hmmm.I was forced to admit them on my own foolishness basis." Ichi muttered and looked back at Faisal. "Now the question is... have they ever done wonders with mathematics?" challenge Ichi.

Faisal nodded. "Archimedes once lifted a boat that sank back to the surface of the water with his theorem. You know what the archimedes theory is?" angled.

Faisal smiled and explained. "Archimedes found that the upward buoyancy applied to objects soaked in liquid, either completely submerged or only partially submerged, it is equal to the weight of the fluid that the object is moving and working in an upward direction in the center of mass of the fluid being moved."

Ichi could only nod at the contents of the law or principle of Archimedes presented by Faisal. The young man asked, "Have you read Andrea Hirata's novel yet?" angled.

"I only know the novel Laskar Pelangi.." replied Ichi then chuckled.

"Fourth novel... Latitude Dreams... Maryamah Karpov... Have you read it?" ask Faisal.

Ichi shook his head honestly.

"Told in the novel, Lintang, his best friend Andrea managed to lift the wreck of a wrecks of a Malay pirate ship that had been languishing on the riverbed since the reign of the Dutch Kingdom's Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, it came to the surface and shocked society at that time. With the remnants of wood shaved from the wreck to make his boat to sail into enemy territory to save his lover A Ling" Faisal said.

"Hm. I have to read the novel." Ichi murmured later.

Faisal smiled again. "You know what, magic numbers are in math?" angled.

"Magic numbers?" tukas Ichi's. "Otherwise?" then she laughed a little.

"Do you believe me, if I say that the numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 are magic numbers?" lure Faisal again with a smile.

"Ah, is that right?" ichi said, "The evidence?"

Faisal asked Ichi to open the calculator application on his device. Ichi did as the young man asked.

"Try multiplying 2, the number 142857." pinta Faisal.

Ichi pressed the number 142857 on the calculator screen and multiplied it. His brows furrowed for a moment and looked at Faisal. "It can be 285714" he replied.

"Note... is there anything unique?" faisal Fishing.

Ichi smile. "Hm. yes, if 142857 I multiply by two then the numbers 1 and 4 will move behind, so 285714" he said. "Interesting too" he commented.

"OK, now the number that was originally multiplied by 3." pinta Faisal.

"Return? You mean 142857?" ask Ichi.

Faisal nodded. Ichi did as the young man commanded. His eyebrows shot up and a soft laugh came out of his mouth.

"This time the number 1 moved behind.... 428571." replied Ichi who began to interest him.

"Okey, now the numbers were originally multiplied by 4?" faisal Fishing.

Ichi went back to doing what Faisal had ordered. Before long he again chuckled, "Fig 57 moved forward... 571428." said Ichi.

"Try multiplying 5." pinta Faisal.

"142857 times 5.." murmured Ichi pressed the touch screen keys. He smiled again. "715285... How can that be?" tukas Ichi looked at Faisal.

The young man just shrugged his shoulders. Faisal again ordered to multiply the number 142857 by 6. Ichi carried out the instruction. He looked at Faisal again.

"Return in the back. The number 142 which was originally a priority was replaced by 857 which is now in front." replied Ichi. "All numbers are never finished. It remains the same and does not change, which changes only its position."

Faisal nodded. "Let's multiply the original number by the original number." lure the young man.

Ichi multiplies the number 142857 by 142857. Both her eyes became more and more rounded. He looked at Faisal.

"142857142857." said Ichi. "The two original numbers were stuck." the girl was speechless right by the uniqueness of the numbers.

"Right, is that my reasoning?" faisal. "Now be prepared to be surprised again. Try to multiply the original number by 7. This time, I'm sure you'll be more silent..."

Ichi carried out that order. Before long he would scream in shock. "Subhanallah..the figure changed..to 999999... This is really weird!" yells.

"Now you understand that math is very useful in your life, right?" faisal hatch.

Ichi finally could only smile awkwardly and rub the top of her hijab. Faisal smiled.

"There are still many mathematical wonders. You'll find her later." Faisal said. "Not angry anymore?"

Ichi chuckled then shook his head. Faisal nodded again. "Dare as your name says, Ichi. Does not the meaning of your name mean a beautiful devotee who is obedient and has extensive knowledge?" satir Faisal with a smile.

Ichi could only blush, while Faisal got up and left the girl sitting alone in the gazebo after first leaving behind a sympathetic smile that impressed the heart of the jilbaber. []