One and one make one
Bargain The Who
He say "one and one and one is three"
Come Together The Beatles
Obviously the lyrics above present a s'tira - contradiction, in Hebrew. If one and one make one then one and one and one can't possibly make three. So what's going on.
There's a little known Jewish Urban Legend* that Roger Daltrey is the descendent of a long line of great Rabbis. In fact the name Daltrey is not English at all, but a corruption of the Yiddish term "Der Alter" (The Elder) after his great great grandfather who was a leading Rabbi of British Jewry in the early 19th century.
Something of a renaissance man among rock stars, Daltrey called on his Talmudic legacy and his knowledge of mathematics to solve this apparent contradiction between two definitive rock songs.
Assume a = b
Then a * b = b * b or b ^ 2
and a ^ 2 - a * b = a ^ 2 - b ^ 2
factor a * ( a - b ) = ( a + b ) * ( a - b )
and (a * (a - b) )/(a - b) = (( a + b ) * (a - b)) / (a - b)
therefore a = a + b
subtitute a = b = 1
and you have 1 = 1 + 1 or 1 = 2
If 1 is equal to 2 we can now explain both lyrics consistently.
1 + 1 + 1 = 3 or 2 + 1 = 3 then we subsitute 1 for 2 and we have 1 + 1 and as we have shown 2 = 1 so we now have 1 + 1 which again reduces to 2 and finally we substitute 1 for 2 one more time and we're left with
1 + 1 + 1 is not just equal to 3 but it is also equal to 1 and we have resolved these shvairer (difficult in Yiddish) lyrics.
And it's all due to the brilliance of the descendant of Der Alter, Roger Daltrey.
* Like statistics 97% of all Jewish Urban Legends are made up on the spot.
