infinity
Original: infinity on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with flame-like red hair, gesturing as she argues:
Red-haired woman: I don't believe infinities exist in the real world. It's just a mathematical construct created by humans.
Panel 2:
The red-haired woman continues, now looking troubled:
Red-haired woman: What about when I divide two by nine? I get 0.222... forever.
Panel 3:
The red-haired woman, recovering her composure:
Red-haired woman: Nonsense. Mathematics must ultimately be empirical. There is no way to be certain what nature has kept from greedy human eyes.
Panel 4:
Caption / sign: Somewhere, far far to the right of the decimal point.
The panel is filled with rows of repeating digits:
2222222222222222 2222222 222222222 2222 AHHHFUCKIT.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a blank panel: All the cool kids use base 36.
A woman with flame-like red hair, gesturing as she argues:
Red-haired woman: I don't believe infinities exist in the real world. It's just a mathematical construct created by humans.
Panel 2:
The red-haired woman continues, now looking troubled:
Red-haired woman: What about when I divide two by nine? I get 0.222... forever.
Panel 3:
The red-haired woman, recovering her composure:
Red-haired woman: Nonsense. Mathematics must ultimately be empirical. There is no way to be certain what nature has kept from greedy human eyes.
Panel 4:
Caption / sign: Somewhere, far far to the right of the decimal point.
The panel is filled with rows of repeating digits:
2222222222222222 2222222 222222222 2222 AHHHFUCKIT.
Votey:
Handwritten text on a blank panel: All the cool kids use base 36.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A woman with flame-like red hair argues that infinities don't exist in the real world and that math is just a human construct. She then worries aloud that dividing two by nine gives 0.222... forever, but reassures herself that math must ultimately be empirical and there's no way to know what nature is hiding from greedy human eyes. The final panel, captioned 'Somewhere, far far to the right of the decimal point,' shows endless rows of the digit 2 repeating, until the text abruptly reads 'AHHHFUCKIT.' Votey aftercomic: a blank panel with handwritten text reading 'All the cool kids use base 36.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.