And you thought you'd never use Algebra after High School...

Yahoo! News - Algebra Points the Way to a Happy Marriage

LONDON (Reuters) - A mathematician says he can predict with almost total accuracy which newly wed couples will enjoy a happy marriage — using two lines of algebra.

Professor James Murray says the two formulae he devised have a 94 percent success rate when it comes to forecasting whether a couple will stay together, the Daily Telegraph said Friday.

Gee, I think I may need to contact my High School Algebra teacher and beg her forgiveness for any grief I caused over the fact Algebra wasn’t going to be useful in my life. Maybe it will be after all? :-p