ellipsis
Original: ellipsis on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top yellow banner): NEW SEQUENCE TYPE: "LUCKY MORON SEQUENCES." DEFINITION: ANY CONVERGENT SERIES, SUCH THAT (3 + 2/3 a_i) = (2/3 a_i)
Panel 1:
A chalkboard reads:
Solve:
24 + 12 + 6 + 3 + ... = ?
48 (underlined, written below)
Two women stand in front of the chalkboard. A woman with gray hair (on the left) says: "I... WOW. YOU'VE NEVER STUDIED SERIES AND YOU GOT IT INSTANTLY."
A woman with flame-like red hair (on the right, pointing) says: "THE 'PLUS THREE DOTS' PART MEANS 'PLUS 3,' RIGHT?"
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Ten points to whoever comes up with the most convoluted example."
Panel 1:
A chalkboard reads:
Solve:
24 + 12 + 6 + 3 + ... = ?
48 (underlined, written below)
Two women stand in front of the chalkboard. A woman with gray hair (on the left) says: "I... WOW. YOU'VE NEVER STUDIED SERIES AND YOU GOT IT INSTANTLY."
A woman with flame-like red hair (on the right, pointing) says: "THE 'PLUS THREE DOTS' PART MEANS 'PLUS 3,' RIGHT?"
Votey:
Handwritten note: "Ten points to whoever comes up with the most convoluted example."
Alt text
A single-panel comic. A yellow banner across the top reads: "NEW SEQUENCE TYPE: 'LUCKY MORON SEQUENCES.' DEFINITION: ANY CONVERGENT SERIES, SUCH THAT (3 + 2/3 a_i) = (2/3 a_i)." Below, two women stand at a green chalkboard. The chalkboard reads "Solve: 24 + 12 + 6 + 3 + ... = ?" with the answer "48" underlined beneath it. The gray-haired woman on the left says, "I... WOW. You've never studied series and you got it instantly." The red-haired woman on the right, pointing at the board, says, "The 'plus three dots' part means 'plus 3,' right?" The joke: she got the correct answer to a geometric series by total coincidence, misreading the ellipsis (...) as literally adding 3. Votey (a small follow-up panel): a handwritten note reads, "Ten points to whoever comes up with the most convoluted example."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.