Prime Factors
A love poem in which two hearts each hold a secret prime and multiply them together, staying united "till death us factorize." (Multiplying two secret primes is also how RSA encryption works.)
Transcript
[Title] "Prime Factors"
"My heart, it holds a secret prime, / and your heart holds one, too. / I ask you now, will you join hearts, / and multiply them through? / We'll make a product so sublime / it overtakes the skies, / and stay together all our days / till death us factorize." [Two smiling hearts holding hands]
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-02-12-prime-factors/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)