2015-01-03
Original: 2015-01-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (presenting): In this paper, we disprove the Boobs Conjecture, which states that, for B>5000B, there is no number larger than B, excluding multiples of B, that is funnier than B.
Panel 2:
Woman: Consider the set of all numbers B, such that B<(8-810^14), where 8 is a counting number. Examples include 5800008 and 580000000008.
Panel 3:
Woman (gesturing at a chart): In this plot, we show that the "Boobs Numbers" get monotonically funnier with larger B, though the rate of increase declines rapidly, starting around 68.
[The chart shows a curve rising steeply then leveling off, with axes labeled (humor on the vertical, B-value on the horizontal).]
Panel 4:
Woman: There are good reasons for this, which you can find detailed in the latest issue of our new publication.
Panel 5 (a journal cover):
Journal of Puerile Mathematics
LOWERCASE DELTA:
δ
KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A WIENER
Donut: SPECIAL SECTION ON THE IMAGINARY UNIT!
Votey:
A journal cover:
Journal of Applied Puerile Mathematics
Drawing an anus, using polar coordinates:
[Below the text is a crude radial line-burst drawing resembling an anus rendered in polar coordinates.]
Woman (presenting): In this paper, we disprove the Boobs Conjecture, which states that, for B>5000B, there is no number larger than B, excluding multiples of B, that is funnier than B.
Panel 2:
Woman: Consider the set of all numbers B, such that B<(8-810^14), where 8 is a counting number. Examples include 5800008 and 580000000008.
Panel 3:
Woman (gesturing at a chart): In this plot, we show that the "Boobs Numbers" get monotonically funnier with larger B, though the rate of increase declines rapidly, starting around 68.
[The chart shows a curve rising steeply then leveling off, with axes labeled (humor on the vertical, B-value on the horizontal).]
Panel 4:
Woman: There are good reasons for this, which you can find detailed in the latest issue of our new publication.
Panel 5 (a journal cover):
Journal of Puerile Mathematics
LOWERCASE DELTA:
δ
KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A WIENER
Donut: SPECIAL SECTION ON THE IMAGINARY UNIT!
Votey:
A journal cover:
Journal of Applied Puerile Mathematics
Drawing an anus, using polar coordinates:
[Below the text is a crude radial line-burst drawing resembling an anus rendered in polar coordinates.]
Alt text
A four-panel comic plus a votey, parodying serious mathematics papers with juvenile number humor. In the first three panels a dark-haired woman in glasses lectures, gesturing. She says they disprove the "Boobs Conjecture," defines a set of numbers B (giving examples like 5800008 and 580000000008, which resemble the word 'boobs' in digits), and points at a chart showing that the "Boobs Numbers" get monotonically funnier as B grows larger, with the rate of increase leveling off. She notes more details are in their new publication. The fifth panel is a journal cover reading 'Journal of Puerile Mathematics, LOWERCASE DELTA: δ, KIND OF LOOKS LIKE A WIENER,' with a banner promising a special section on the imaginary unit. Votey: another journal cover, 'Journal of Applied Puerile Mathematics,' titled 'Drawing an anus, using polar coordinates,' above a crude radial burst of lines forming the shape.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.