{"id":4769,"date":"2026-02-21T12:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:46:06","slug":"maximizing-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/21\/maximizing-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximizing Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"text-indent: 0in;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4766\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maximizing-Love-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maximizing-Love-Fig2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maximizing-Love-Fig2-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>This is a Valentine\u2019s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/math-games\/happy-valentines-day-can-you-maximize-the-love-on-this-day-807dfc6b1479\">puzzle<\/a> from BL\u2019s (Barry Leung) Math Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"text-indent: 0in;\">\u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day everyone, I hope you are having a euphoric moment, but if not, you can try this algebra puzzle about maximizing the expression LUV + LU + UV + LV given L + U + V = 12, where L, U, V are non-negative integers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-indent: 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maximizing-Love-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-indent: 0in;\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Maximizing-Love-260221.pdf\">Maximizing Love<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Valentine\u2019s Day puzzle from BL\u2019s (Barry Leung) Math Games. \u201cHappy Valentine\u2019s Day everyone, I hope you are having a euphoric moment, but if not, you can try this algebra puzzle about maximizing the expression LUV + LU + UV + LV given L + U + V = 12, where L, U, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[274,32,153],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-inquiries","tag-bl-puzzles","tag-calculus","tag-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4770,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}