Love, Relationships and Mathematics.

It's a very complicated title, ain't it? Love and Mathematics? Seems like they both are extremes rite? But I think I have found a bit of similarity between them... a bit of similarity in predicting a wee bit of relationships and possibly LOVE...

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Have you ever come across widgets and websites, such as Love calculator, love test etc. there are plenty available in the web and mobile apps. They are basically a mathematical algorithm that matches you and your partner's name, date of birth information and gives you a calculated output. These apps are only for fun purposes, nothing serious about it, but these Love widgets are the main aspect of my article here.

When, I was bored with nothing to do last weekend, while browsing online, I hit upon one such app called the 'Love guru'. This app like any other gets you and your partner's NAMES and gives out a little bit detailed percentage output in 4 categories - Love, work, sex and interests along with a overall score and a Letter grade.

As I said before, I was bored and for passing time, I played with it, using names of my friends and family, whom I know are in relationships or married... For my amusement and surprise, it turned out that people who are in relationship for at least 3 years or more had an overall score of minimum 75% with a grade of B+ and above.

The most surprising fact was that there were no exceptions. I would have tried a sample set of 25 plus couples I know of, and everyone scored high. In fact, some of them scored even higher like 90% and A+.

I even tried a sample of couples, who were in relationship and failed. Their score as expected fell below an average of 65% with a grade of C and below.

I was so intrigued with the results, that I started entering names of famous celebrities and fictional couples like Romeo & Juliet, Laila & Majnu, Brad & Angelina etc... I used a sample set of 25 couples here too. Many of them, including some animal characters and an Inter-galatical couple in Jake & Neytiri from Avatar, Scored the same level as the real ones, but this category had some exceptions. For example, Ron & Hermione from harry potter, Failed miserably.

So mathematically speaking... Does this imply that there is a connection between the name and relationships of people? Meaning, certain names go along better than others or is it just a well designed application/algorithm?

There's a bit of science behind this name connection. In Indian Arranged marriages, when horoscopes are matched, one of the Parameters is the Name; they look for matching names too. Astrology is accepted as a science. So if scientifically accepted; could this name compatibility calculating algorithm be used as a potential date matching tool?

But after all, that’s said and done, when it comes to the conclusion...

LOVE, it's really complicated... if Love and Relationships were as simple as calculating it mathematically, No one would be Single… who knows, maybe no one would be in relationships either.

Try it yourself; Even if it isn't science, it’s definitely fun. Who knows... You could be one of those 25 plus couples.

P.S. I am sure; you have a Question, if I tried this app for personal use. In fact YES, I did try matching my name with some potential girls, whom I would like to date. But unfortunately, my name being the different, unique and badass name of all... the matches barely crossed 60% with maximum being 68% and a grade of C.