Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service.

We're your weekly guide to the numbers all around us,

and I'm Tim Halford, and this week, The Numbers of Love.

Finding someone to love can be hard.

You could try the traditional approach.

Get a bit tipsy, meet someone's eyes across a crowded bar,

stroll over with your best chat outlines prepared,

then realise they're staring straight past you,

and you should keep on walking and pretending you were always headed to the loo instead.

Or you could try dating websites and dating apps,

offering to match you with people you could be sure were looking for love.

Excellent. In fact, dating apps are so good that you can find

thousands of people who like you, or at least you can, if you're loyal listener, Helen.

Dear more or less, I am a statistician who has a profile on a dating app Tinder.

Today, I received the message you've been liked by over 15,000 people since joining Tinder.

I would like to know how this has been calculated, as I don't believe it is true.

I'm no supermodel, and on a good day, describe myself as average looking.

Average looking, eh? Perhaps you should consider a career in radio, Helen.

Anyway, to investigate, I asked our dating reporter Phoebe Keane to get on the case. Hello, Phoebe.

Always willing to investigate such claims, I went to visit Helen where she lives in Cambridge in the UK.

Hello. Hi.

Oh, thank you.

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