2010-08-09
Original: 2010-08-09 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
TOP DIAGRAM (a chart relating numbers of women in a group to a graph drawn as a polygon with all diagonals connected):
A row of figures showing graphs for increasing n. For n=1 a single dot; n=2 two dots connected by a line; n=3 a triangle (labeled R at the top vertex); n=4 a square with diagonals; n=5 a pentagon with all connections; n=6 a hexagon with all connections.
n = 1 2 3 4 5 6
d = 0 1 3 6 10 15
n = number of women in a group
d = difficulty of approaching one
d = n( (n-1) / 2 )
MAIN COMIC:
A man with flame-like orange hair, wearing glasses and holding papers covered in math, sits beside another man on a couch. A group of women stands nearby.
Orange-haired man: SO YOU SEE IT'D BE ILL-ADVISED TO—
Other man: JUST TALK TO HER!
Orange-haired man: SHE'S IN A TRISKAIDECAGON!
Votey:
Handwritten math on a piece of paper:
d₁₃ = 13( (13-1) / 2 )
= 78 OHMyggodshe'shot₁₆
A row of figures showing graphs for increasing n. For n=1 a single dot; n=2 two dots connected by a line; n=3 a triangle (labeled R at the top vertex); n=4 a square with diagonals; n=5 a pentagon with all connections; n=6 a hexagon with all connections.
n = 1 2 3 4 5 6
d = 0 1 3 6 10 15
n = number of women in a group
d = difficulty of approaching one
d = n( (n-1) / 2 )
MAIN COMIC:
A man with flame-like orange hair, wearing glasses and holding papers covered in math, sits beside another man on a couch. A group of women stands nearby.
Orange-haired man: SO YOU SEE IT'D BE ILL-ADVISED TO—
Other man: JUST TALK TO HER!
Orange-haired man: SHE'S IN A TRISKAIDECAGON!
Votey:
Handwritten math on a piece of paper:
d₁₃ = 13( (13-1) / 2 )
= 78 OHMyggodshe'shot₁₆
Alt text
The top of the comic is a mock mathematical chart. A row of graph diagrams shows polygons with all their vertices interconnected, for group sizes n = 1 through 6 (a dot, a line, a triangle, a square with diagonals, a fully-connected pentagon, and a fully-connected hexagon). Below are tables: n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and d = 0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15. Captions read: 'n = number of women in a group,' 'd = difficulty of approaching one,' and the formula d = n((n-1)/2). The main panel shows an orange-haired man in glasses on a couch, clutching math-covered papers, talking earnestly to another man while a group of women stands beside them. The orange-haired man says, 'So you see it'd be ill-advised to—' The other man cuts in: 'Just talk to her!' The orange-haired man protests: 'She's in a triskaidecagon!' (a 13-sided figure). The votey shows his handwritten calculation: d₁₃ = 13((13-1)/2) = 78, with the scrawled note 'OHMyggodshe'shot' — the joke being that the more women in the group, the more terrifyingly difficult he finds approaching one.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.