technically-beautiful

A nine-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman and a red-haired woman discuss math. The dark-haired woman says she loves that a proven mathematical truth is true EVERYWHERE; the red-haired woman poetically agrees that across the vault of heaven, beings we'll never contact know there's no integer between two and three. The dark-haired woman then asks 'What about sorf?' and proposes a fake number 'sorf' that sits between two and three ('one, two, sorf, three'). She quizzes the red-haired woman, who gamely answers: ten plus sorf is 'sorfteen,' sorf squared is 'eight,' sorf to the third power is 'two times sorfteen minus one.' The red-haired woman triumphantly works out that sorf is three, three is four, and so on, calling it 'base eleven shifted oddly' and accusing the dark-haired woman of just being annoying. The dark-haired woman replies that her being annoying is the specific case; the general case is that she's technically right. Exasperated, the red-haired woman says talking to her is '1% insight, 99% semantics.' The dark-haired woman asks, 'Are you sure you want to go into math?' Votey (aftercomic): a single panel of handwritten cursive text reading 'Dear God, Please let the math be right...'