2013-10-04
Original: 2013-10-04 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A smiling red-haired man holds up one finger toward a baby (off-panel, shown as a large hand/arm).
Man: "HEY LIL' MONKEY. CAN YOU TELL DADDY HOW MANY FINGERS IS THIS MANY FINGERS?"
Panel 2: A grinning bald baby answers.
Baby: "two finga" (written stylized as "two finga")
Panel 3: A red banner reads "LATER...". Below, the red-haired man stands at a gathering holding a cup, talking to other adults around a water cooler.
Man: "SO MY TWO-YEAR-OLD CALCULATED THE PI-TAU CONVERSION CONSTANT."
Votey:
A hand-drawn equation on a whiteboard/page:
K(pi-tau) = sqrt( e^(ln(tau/pi))^2 )
Man: "HEY LIL' MONKEY. CAN YOU TELL DADDY HOW MANY FINGERS IS THIS MANY FINGERS?"
Panel 2: A grinning bald baby answers.
Baby: "two finga" (written stylized as "two finga")
Panel 3: A red banner reads "LATER...". Below, the red-haired man stands at a gathering holding a cup, talking to other adults around a water cooler.
Man: "SO MY TWO-YEAR-OLD CALCULATED THE PI-TAU CONVERSION CONSTANT."
Votey:
A hand-drawn equation on a whiteboard/page:
K(pi-tau) = sqrt( e^(ln(tau/pi))^2 )
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a smiling red-haired father holds up one finger toward his baby and says, "Hey lil' monkey. Can you tell daddy how many fingers is this many fingers?" Panel 2: the grinning bald baby replies in a pink speech bubble, "two finga." Panel 3: a red banner reads "Later..."; the father, now at a social gathering holding a drink, brags to other adults, "So my two-year-old calculated the pi-tau conversion constant." The joke: the baby's nonsense answer of "two" is reframed by the proud dad as a profound mathematical feat. Votey aftercomic: a hand-drawn whiteboard equation showing K(pi-tau) equals the square root of e raised to (ln(tau/pi)) squared — an absurdly overcomplicated expression that just equals tau/pi (i.e., 2), revealing the "constant" the toddler supposedly computed is simply the number two.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.