Equilateral

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(C)Copyright 2022, C. Burke. "AnthroNumerics" is a trademark of Christopher J. Burke and (x, why?).

Oval One wouldn't lie to Stoptroopers, would he?

And since they're "Stop" troopers, I had to make one red. White features didn't look right so I left them black.

Obligatory Math: Equilateral triangles are also equiangular, and vice versa.

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School Life #27: Ma the Force

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Ma the Force move you ... or something like that.

And when someone gives me the May the Fourth be with you, I always return "And also with you."

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P(C3PO)

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There's no replacing them!

While I'm pretty much over the joke of "May the Fourth", I will continue to acknowledge it. It's odd that I didn't hear it at all for the first 25 years or so, and then couldn't get away from it. Also, I think "Revenge of the Si(x)th" makes more sense than "Revenge of the Fifth", with the side benefit of leaving Cinco de Mayo alone.

As for the problem above there is a 1 in 5 chance of selecting the correct protocol droid and a 1 in 4 chance of selected the correct astromech, meaning that there is only a 1 in 20 chance of selecting the pair of droids you're looking for.

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R.I.P. 2016

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

I got nothing.

I've said before that I didn't want to be an "obituary comic". I have noted the passing of a number of people over the past decade, but I've had to pick and choose. Generally, what matters are how much the person affected me or were a part of my life, my artistic ability and limitations and time -- as it both "Is it possible to get something meaningful done in a short time?" and "Do I have the time?" There's been less and less of the latter.

I might also add that when I kept to my 3x/week schedule, those occasional comics were a smaller percentage of the overall output. Keeping an irregular schedule, it's harder to justify "filler" comics. But I don't think this one needs justification. People have been complaining about 2016 for at least a month now, waiting for it to end already. Sadly, next year won't prove to be any different in this regard. People die. That won't change.




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Hypersphere

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

RIP2-D2

I was considering this months ago, but because I wanted to do it in a classroom setting and didn't have time before the end of the year, I was saving it for the fall.

However, with the passing of Kenny Baker, the man inside the droid we were looking for, I moved it up and reworked it.

For the record, the Volume inside a 4D hypersphere would be 1/2 * pi^2 * r^4.

Edit Wayne's first dialogue balloon is messed up. Two sentences were combined by accident. It will be corrected as time permits. Oopsie!




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Yoda, Math Teacher

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

Yoda Man! Yoda Real MVP! Yoda -- except that wouldn't work in Yoda-speak. Sigh.

It's not y.




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The Dark Side of Math

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can pass math class.




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These Are Not the Volumes You're Looking For

A friend, William Ricker, pinged me on a G+ post, which contained the following image, credited to Nathan W. Pyle:

I immediately shared it and replied, "You know that I'll have to calculate the value of d which makes that true." But, of course, I messed up and commented on my own post and not his. No matter. I went ahead and figured it out.

A sphere has a Volume of (4/3) pi * r ^ 3. A hemisphere would therefore be (2/3) * pi * r ^ 3.
Factoring out r ^ 2 from this leaves d ^ 2 = (2/3) * pi * r, meaning that d = SQRT( (2/3) * pi * r), which wasn't as bad as I might have expected.
The problem is that d = 2r, or r = (1/2)d. Which means that I had to start over because this is actually a stinkin' quadratic equation. It was not the expression I was looking for.

Anyway, long story shorter, given the limitations of this text medium, here's the answer: r = 0 (discard) or r = pi / 6, which makes d = pi / 3.

The check is left as an exercise to the reader.

May the Fourth

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(C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.

Princess Threea and Luke Fivewalker, in case you were wondering.

This seems to be a bigger deal every year, so i figured I couldn't ignore it and keep my geek cred.
Frankly, before maybe five years ago, I hadn't really heard the pun. Don't know where it started or when it really caught on.
It was a clue on Jeopardy! a few years ago, so that's where I'd start looking.

Also check out Lucas Numbers, Movie Night and, of course, Hamlet II: Claudius Strikes Back.

The Number of the Beast

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(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke.

I'd like to try to increase the humor by an order of magnitude. Or at least the number of responses in the discussion area on the blog.

This follow-up was meant to be published last Wednesday. Or Thursday. Or Friday. Actually, I thought about doing it before the "Mole" comic.

EDIT: Typo fixed.

May the Fourth Be With You!

It's the unofficial STAR WARS Day in the United States ("The Fourth of May Be With You" just doesn't cut it, OK, U.K.?)

To celebrate, here's a link to three Star Wars-themed comics.

I hope you like them, and if so, let me know so that they'll pop up more frequently than three times in six years.

Movie Night, A Long Time Ago ...

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(C)Copyright 2012, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Go that way! You'll be malfunctioning before you reach the bottom of the stairs!

No math here. But Halloween's coming, and I did a Star Trek comic last Friday.
And I was inspired a bit by some nice people on Twitter.

Lucas Numbers

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(C)Copyright 2010, C. Burke. All rights reserved.


Not too long from now, at a theater near, near you ...

Hamlet II: Claudius Strikes Back

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Hamlet could have done better had he had a pair of droids.


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