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Y?

Cidu Bill on Aug 6th 2011

It’s been a lot of years — okay, decades — but isn’t the Y-variable height? Which would mean Gracie’s X-variable is off?

Filed in Baldo, Bill Bickel, math | 21 responses so far

Rithmatic

Cidu Bill on Aug 25th 2009

If this is what they’re teaching in middle school

then I can understand how Herb can be so abyssmally stupid

Of course, this doesn’t explain why Heart was learning differential calculus of whatever it was in second grade a few months back…

Pinny points out, by the way, that “the flash card reads ‘9×5′ in all three panels. Why is she asking for ‘5×8′ and even ‘5×9′?”

Filed in Bill Bickel, Heart of the City, Herb and Jamaal, Jan Eliot, Stone Soup, comic strips, comics, humor, math | 38 responses so far

John Baker called this / Comic I Don’t Understand / Joe Gelinas lol’ed

Cidu Bill on Aug 13th 2009

Joe Gelinas: “I liked the mouse-over text, too: After somewhere around 40 hours, there’s no academic reason to go to the class. Only go for the hallucinations.”

John Baker: “The strip claims a haiku proof that there is an infinite number of primes.“

The classic proof that there is an infinite number of primes is to assume that there is a finite set of all primes. Multiply those primes and add one to the product. The resulting sum will be a number not divisible by any lesser prime, and therefore is prime itself. Thus, the set of all primes is not finite.

“But XKCD’s proof, uncharacteristically, says no such thing. It says that we take the top prime’s divisors, which are itself and one. Its product, therefore, is the same number. Add one and you have a number that must be divisible by two, therefore nonprime. Nothing whatsoever erat demonstratum.”

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, haiku, humor, lol, math, xkcd | 10 responses so far