How the friendship count differs

The addition rule is the love rule: neighbouring counts, a sum of 10 or more split into two digits, stop at two digits. The first row is seven numbers, not five. That single change is why the percentage is not the love percentage.

Mira and Kabir are computed on this page from that rule, not typed in by hand, so the example cannot drift from the form above it. The share link carries the two names and this site recomputes them. It does not keep a copy.

The friendship game uses the same paper addition as the love game and a different set of letters. Love counts L, O, V, E, S. Friendship counts F, R, I, E, N, D, S, the letters of the word friends. A pair that scores 54 on love does not score 54 here, and the page would be dishonest if it only swapped the heading.

Mira and Kabir are the worked pair on this site, not Alice and Bob. Their row is whatever those seven letters actually contain, printed under the form so you can see the counts before the addition starts. Spaces drop out. A middle name adds its letters, which is why a full name and a first name disagree.

The result is a percentage because the notebook game ended that way, not because friendship comes in percent. Two people can be close with almost none of these seven letters between them. The number is a property of the spelling. Read it, send it, and do not plan a friendship around it.