2011-04-08
Original: 2011-04-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title text (above the comic): "CAN π BE EXPRESSED AS A FRACTION?"
Panel 1 (header label, pink): A+ MATH STUDENT
Panel 1: A smiling woman with red hair, eyes closed, speaking.
Woman: NO! π IS IRRATIONAL, MEANING IT CAN'T BE EXPRESSED AS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO NUMBERS. JOHANN LAMBERT PROVED THIS IN 1761.
Panel 2 (header label, yellow-green): FUTURE MATHEMATICIAN
Panel 2: A woman with dark curly hair and glasses, looking tired/deadpan.
Woman (in speech bubble): π/1
Votey:
Caption box at top: FUTURE ENGINEER:
A person with glasses speaking.
Person: HOLD ON. I'LL ASK MATHEMATICA.
Panel 1 (header label, pink): A+ MATH STUDENT
Panel 1: A smiling woman with red hair, eyes closed, speaking.
Woman: NO! π IS IRRATIONAL, MEANING IT CAN'T BE EXPRESSED AS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO NUMBERS. JOHANN LAMBERT PROVED THIS IN 1761.
Panel 2 (header label, yellow-green): FUTURE MATHEMATICIAN
Panel 2: A woman with dark curly hair and glasses, looking tired/deadpan.
Woman (in speech bubble): π/1
Votey:
Caption box at top: FUTURE ENGINEER:
A person with glasses speaking.
Person: HOLD ON. I'LL ASK MATHEMATICA.
Alt text
A two-panel comic titled "Can π be expressed as a fraction?" Panel one is labeled "A+ Math Student" and shows a cheerful red-haired woman, eyes closed and grinning, declaring: "No! π is irrational, meaning it can't be expressed as a relationship between two numbers. Johann Lambert proved this in 1761." Panel two is labeled "Future Mathematician" and shows a tired, deadpan woman with dark curly hair and glasses, who simply answers "π/1" — technically a fraction, just not a ratio of two integers. The votey (bonus panel) is labeled "Future Engineer:" and shows a bespectacled person saying, "Hold on. I'll ask Mathematica," punting the question to software.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.