Proof
Original: Proof on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (main):
A man with dark hair and round glasses stands at a chalkboard, scratching his head with one hand and holding chalk in the other. On the chalkboard is written "1 + 1 = 2" and below it two side-by-side squares, each filled with scattered dots (darts).
Man: THIS WAS PROVEN EMPIRICALLY BY DRAWING SQUARES OF EQUAL AREA, SAMPLING THEM VIA THROWING n DARTS, AND DETERMINING THAT AS n GROWS LARGE, THE RATIO OF DARTS IN EACH SQUARE APPROACHES 1.
Caption (below panel): You could always tell the future statisticians.
Votey:
A simply drawn character speaks.
Character: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE THAT ANNIE IS NOT ALLOWED AT MY BIRTHDAY ON ACCOUNT OF BEING A PLATONIST.
A man with dark hair and round glasses stands at a chalkboard, scratching his head with one hand and holding chalk in the other. On the chalkboard is written "1 + 1 = 2" and below it two side-by-side squares, each filled with scattered dots (darts).
Man: THIS WAS PROVEN EMPIRICALLY BY DRAWING SQUARES OF EQUAL AREA, SAMPLING THEM VIA THROWING n DARTS, AND DETERMINING THAT AS n GROWS LARGE, THE RATIO OF DARTS IN EACH SQUARE APPROACHES 1.
Caption (below panel): You could always tell the future statisticians.
Votey:
A simply drawn character speaks.
Character: I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE THAT ANNIE IS NOT ALLOWED AT MY BIRTHDAY ON ACCOUNT OF BEING A PLATONIST.
Alt text
Main comic: A man with dark hair and round glasses stands at a green chalkboard, scratching his head with one hand and holding a piece of chalk in the other. The chalkboard reads "1 + 1 = 2" above two side-by-side squares of equal size, each peppered with scattered dots representing thrown darts. He says: "This was proven empirically by drawing squares of equal area, sampling them via throwing n darts, and determining that as n grows large, the ratio of darts in each square approaches 1." The joke: he has reduced the trivial truth that 1 + 1 = 2 to an elaborate empirical dart-throwing experiment. A caption below reads: "You could always tell the future statisticians." Votey (aftercomic): A roughly sketched character announces: "I would like to take this opportunity to announce that Annie is not allowed at my birthday on account of being a Platonist." The gag contrasts the empiricist child with a Platonist (who believes math is discovered, not experimentally verified).
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.