2011-05-18
Original: 2011-05-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Three people stand together at a sporting event, each holding up a foam-finger-style sign over their heads, the way fans hold up "WE'RE #1" signs.
Man on the left (bald with white-rimmed glasses, yellow shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #0.9" (with a repeating bar over the 9, i.e. 0.999...).
Man in the middle (brown hair and beard, glasses, gray shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #0°" (zero to the power of zero).
Woman on the right (dark hair, round glasses, red shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #e^(π/2 i)^i" (e raised to the pi-over-two-i power, raised to i).
Caption below the panel: "Mathematicians are no longer allowed to sporting events."
Votey:
We are the hero!
Our team is on a mission!
We're 0°!
(depending on definition)
Three people stand together at a sporting event, each holding up a foam-finger-style sign over their heads, the way fans hold up "WE'RE #1" signs.
Man on the left (bald with white-rimmed glasses, yellow shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #0.9" (with a repeating bar over the 9, i.e. 0.999...).
Man in the middle (brown hair and beard, glasses, gray shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #0°" (zero to the power of zero).
Woman on the right (dark hair, round glasses, red shirt), sign reads: "WE'RE #e^(π/2 i)^i" (e raised to the pi-over-two-i power, raised to i).
Caption below the panel: "Mathematicians are no longer allowed to sporting events."
Votey:
We are the hero!
Our team is on a mission!
We're 0°!
(depending on definition)
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing three people at a sporting event, each holding up a fan sign over their head the way sports fans hold "WE'RE #1" signs. But each sign is a mathematical expression that equals 1. The bald man on the left (yellow shirt) holds "WE'RE #0.9" with a repeating bar over the 9 (0.999... = 1). The bearded man in the middle (gray shirt) holds "WE'RE #0⁰" (zero to the zeroth power). The woman on the right (red shirt) holds "WE'RE #e^(π/2·i)^i" (a tower of exponents that evaluates to 1). All three are smiling and cheering. The caption reads: "Mathematicians are no longer allowed to sporting events." The joke is that each obscure expression is just a fancy way of writing the number 1. The votey adds a chant: "We are the hero! / Our team is on a mission! / We're 0⁰! / (depending on definition)" — a nod to the ongoing math debate over whether 0⁰ equals 1.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.