pointless but not meaningless
Math is fun. Math mechanics are yukky. It’s the paradox of my brain that while the concepts and patterns of math rule much of my creative thinking, I seriously can’t add or multiply to save my life. Just never, never ask me to recite the multiplication tables for 6 or 8. It’s just not gonna happen.
 But patterns are fun, and they make math fun. A few years ago I worked on a very mathy project using phrases and javascript rollovers to create a set of combinatorial statements. It’s still fun to play with.