Meandering Thoughts #54

[Chorus 2]
Oh, I love you more today than yesterday
But not as much as tomorrow
I love you more today than yesterday
But only half as much as tomorrow

At least to me, the songwriter is mathematically illiterate.

A fable or folktale or whatever you wish to call it shows the power math, more specifically the doubling of something day over day, as illustrated in this version:

...Then a village girl named Rani devises a clever plan. She does a good deed for the raja, and in return the raja lets her choose her reward. Rani asks for just one grain of rice, doubled every day for thirty days. Through the surprising power of doubling, one grain of rice grows into more than one billion grains of rice - and Rani teaches the raja a lesson about what it truly means to be wise and fair...

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

The song claims that his love will double each and every day, setting completely unscalable and unrealistic expectations for his partner. Every software engineer knows their n² values as we deal with them regularly - ever hear of bit-shifting?!? - and know how large those numbers get.

Artistic liberty aside, it's obvious that the songwriter did not pay a lot of attention in school!