Regarding the Math

Please, if you will, indulge me. 
Let me reveal to you the simple math
involved in a chocolate chip cookie
and a good friendship - you see
it's easy. Fractions - that's what you need
to know. A quarter of this a half of that, 
It's never a whole - it's always incremental.

Now, if you're looking for me to define
the equation so you can solve the riddle
then you're asking the wrong man - no
I'm asking you to judge for yourself. 
I'm asking you to consider the salt, the sugar
the soda the flour, the butter, the vanilla -
I'm asking you to really think about 
the soul, the heart, the smile, the touch,
the aching desperate fractions that get all mixed up
until it's impossible to tell how it will work out
until you let it all become half-backed.

The only clues I can give you are these:
set the value of hate to zero
remember that some infinities are greater 
than others - love is one of those.
and there is always the one. the one
that multiplies you and gives you your identity.