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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
d = doom
s = sex
t = teletubies
try thinking about it…. I DARE YOU!
This gets dangerously close to “actual math.”
Yeah, I’ll go along with this.
Your math fail depresses me.
If d=s(t), then dividing both sides by t would simply yield d/t = s(t)/t. Really, the initial terms should be d = s/t^p, where p represents the passage of time’s effect on t.
I’ll forgive you, this time.
While I ‘d agree that s(t) is problematic, t3 isn’t winning any awards.
The problem with s(t) is that it shows speed as a function of time. I understand that it is intended to be speed times time, but the parens are unnecessary.
d = s/t^p makes no sense, passage of time and time are the same thing
the real math, used in the physics, makes perfect sense
“How long ’till we get there?”
“It’s 50 miles and we’re going 100 mph, we’ll be there in 30 minutes.”
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It was a big risk posting something like this.
I’m pretty sure the () were to put an implied multiplication, though i did read it as a function the first time too.
Some readings make more sense than others:
distance = speed * time
distance = troubled caused * time
pain = speed * time
pain = troubled caused * time
distance/time = speed
distance/time = trouble caused
pain/time = speed
pain/time = trouble caused
distance/speed = time
distance/trouble caused = time
pain/speed = time
pain/trouble caused = time
This is too “actual” mathematical for me to understand.
Is it meant to be “pain over time” or “pain divided by time”?
oh I sooooo want to show this to my Algebra students!
Man, I wish scientist and mathematicians and engineers could all get together and decide on a standard set of variables. All I could think of when I read this was v=ds/dt and I couldn’t find the v in the comic. Enough procrastinating, back to my fluid mechanics so I don’t fail my test tomorrow.
this isnt about math or physics at all. its about pain making trouble that is sucking up time you can never retrieve.
d=s(t) is not the same as d=s*t, as noted above. Technical accuracy is important. See http://www.xkcd.com, for example.
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