technical
Original: technical on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top banner): LIFE TIP: IT IS TECHNICALLY CORRECT, AND WEIRDLY UNNERVING, TO REFER TO MATHEMATICAL FACTS IN THE PAST TENSE.
Man (red-haired, in a suit): Did you know that 11 was a prime number?
Woman (with dark curly hair, in a yellow shirt, recoiling with hand raised): I... AAAH!
Votey:
Handwritten note:
One day, A² + B² will equal C². (with a small right-triangle diagram labeled C, B, A)
Pi. is about to be irrational.
Every Christmas, e^(iπ) = -1
Man (red-haired, in a suit): Did you know that 11 was a prime number?
Woman (with dark curly hair, in a yellow shirt, recoiling with hand raised): I... AAAH!
Votey:
Handwritten note:
One day, A² + B² will equal C². (with a small right-triangle diagram labeled C, B, A)
Pi. is about to be irrational.
Every Christmas, e^(iπ) = -1
Alt text
A single-panel comic with a yellow caption banner reading: "LIFE TIP: IT IS TECHNICALLY CORRECT, AND WEIRDLY UNNERVING, TO REFER TO MATHEMATICAL FACTS IN THE PAST TENSE." Below, a red-haired man in a suit calmly says, "Did you know that 11 was a prime number?" A woman with dark curly hair in a yellow shirt recoils in alarm, throwing up a hand and shouting, "I... AAAH!" The joke: stating an eternal math fact in past tense makes it sound like something has gone horribly wrong. Votey (aftercomic): a handwritten list of math facts phrased in unsettling tenses — "One day, A² + B² will equal C²" (with a small right-triangle diagram labeled A, B, C), "Pi. is about to be irrational," and "Every Christmas, e^(iπ) = -1."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.