qed
Original: qed on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Student (a young man with orange hair): Professor, why do we end all math proofs with three little dots?
Professor (a woman with large dark curly hair, glasses, pink top): That's Morse code.
Panel 2:
Professor (standing at a green chalkboard with equations such as a summation of x_i squared and y_i x_s - y_2): Three dots is the Morse code for "S" - the sound mathematicians make when people say they made a mistake in their proof.
Panel 3:
Student: ...like how you reused the same variable for two things in step 8.
(The student looks puzzled.)
Panel 4:
Professor (leaning aggressively toward the student, hissing): SSSSSSSSSSSS
(Her speech balloon is a jagged outline full of S's.)
Votey:
No text. A hand-drawn square border (the kind used to frame a math proof / QED box) with three small Morse-code-style dots inside it.
Student (a young man with orange hair): Professor, why do we end all math proofs with three little dots?
Professor (a woman with large dark curly hair, glasses, pink top): That's Morse code.
Panel 2:
Professor (standing at a green chalkboard with equations such as a summation of x_i squared and y_i x_s - y_2): Three dots is the Morse code for "S" - the sound mathematicians make when people say they made a mistake in their proof.
Panel 3:
Student: ...like how you reused the same variable for two things in step 8.
(The student looks puzzled.)
Panel 4:
Professor (leaning aggressively toward the student, hissing): SSSSSSSSSSSS
(Her speech balloon is a jagged outline full of S's.)
Votey:
No text. A hand-drawn square border (the kind used to frame a math proof / QED box) with three small Morse-code-style dots inside it.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: an orange-haired student asks a curly-haired professor in glasses, "Professor, why do we end all math proofs with three little dots?" She answers, "That's Morse code." Panel 2: the professor stands at a chalkboard covered in equations and explains, "Three dots is the Morse code for 'S' - the sound mathematicians make when people say they made a mistake in their proof." Panel 3: the student, looking puzzled, says, "...like how you reused the same variable for two things in step 8." Panel 4: the professor leans menacingly toward him, hissing a jagged speech balloon full of "SSSSSSSSSS". Votey: a hand-drawn square box (a proof's QED frame) containing three small dots rendered like Morse code.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.