(x, why?) Mini: Radian

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Not the same thing at all.

They should invite her out for pie.

So I'm back. For how long? I don't know. I do't have any reasons for being away. This post has been a "draft" since May 31, and the comic is based on a joke told in class nearly a month ago.

Obviously, I needed to get back to the eclipse story becasue I had a two-part follow-up, but that's the kind of thing that takes time to work on. This comic, on the other hand, can be knocked out and posted within an hour. So why'd it take over a month? Again, I don't know.

This just hasn't been a great year scholastically even as things are going pretty well on the writing front. I'd been counting down to 2,000 comics for so long, and then I just came to a halt.

There probably are actual reasons, but not that I can (or will) identify right now.

Enjoy the ride. I hope to have more updates.

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(x, why?) Mini: Septagon

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Every slice sends you closer to prism!

It's a multi-layered story.

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(x, why?) Mini: Meet-up Lines

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There's more than one way to meet another line, particulary when you aren't being straight.

These two lines, however, will never get together. That's just the way it is.

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(x, why?) Mini: Transformation!

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Reflect on this as you will.

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(x, why?) Mini: Halfway

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I would guess that he's a teacher.

I briefly flirted with the idea of using C, J, and B for the points, but that might've been confusing.

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(x, why?) Mini: Box Plot

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That'd be a gallon of data.

This could be a valid chart, if someone had a use for it. You'd need a Six-Number Summary based on quintiles, instead of quartiles. If someone wanted just the 10% above and below the median, that would be the middle box. If for some reason, you wanted the central 60% instead of 50%, that would be the entire box containing the three smaller boxes.

And if anyone is looking for outliers, have a dram at the bar.

As for as the whiskey bottles go, the labels apper to be three flowers or butterflies or possibly an ancient family crest. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Cheers!

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Have One

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Have One what? I don't know. But have one anyway.

I thought about making this a TV series in the world of the AnthroNumerics(tm), and I even thought about giving this number 1 eyes and labeling it an Anthronumeric(tm). Or maybe it actually exists in that world. Who's to say? Other than me, at some point?

Maybe Ian (1) might sport a new hairdo for a while.

This is "fair use" and satire, to the best of my understanding. No challenge to IP rights is intended.

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(x, why?) Mini: Cut!

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I've circled back to this unit again.

There will be a lot of vocabulary and a lot of rules and theorems.

And bad jokes, of course.

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(x, why?) Mini: Polykite

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Read all about it in the aperiodical!

I admit that I don't know much about aperiodical tiling. Unlike tessellations, aperiodical tiling doesn't repeat. If you take kites and darts and make Penrose tiling, you can start with a nice flower (call it a rose or a penrose, if you will) and expand outward, but the patterns will never repeat.

The tridecagon shown in the comic is a "new" shape, recently discovered, that doesn't tessellate. It creates tiles that do not repeat. This is of interest because unlike kites and darts, this is a single polygon. That's something new.

It's called a polykite and is referred to as a "hat". I used both references, although I didn't manage a "pass the hat" quip. And, yes, like Polywhirl and Polycarp, I think that Polykite sounds like it sound evolve into another shape.

Or, since it's Geometry, maybe it should "transform".

Such a transformation likely wouldn't be a rigid motion. But the tiling definitely is.

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(x, why?) Mini: Linear

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Yes, this is how my mind works -- even in the classroom.

I've been sitting on this joke for a couple of weeks for no other reason that just not sitting still at a computer long enough to do it. Well, that's not entirely true -- I've been sitting at them working now that I have regular classes again. And I've been sitting at them writing, or trying to write (see the ads down below). And after a week off, I didn't want to come back with a Science joke first. Maybe that'll be next.

Obligatory Math (ObMath): Linear Pairs are not congruent pears or even congruent anything, necessarily. A linear pair is two angles that share a vertex and a ray, and form a straight line (or straight angle, if you prefer). So the two angles are supplementary since their measures add up to 180 degrees. I toyed with the idea of putting an angle between the two pairs, but it didn't look like. And literally, the image As Is shows a pair of Linear Pears, so I have that going for me.

What's your opinion? I promise I won't delete it. Unless it's spam. Or rude. Or ...

Well, what's your opinion? We can go from there.

And would you like some fruit?

And, yes, those were "naval" oranges.

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(x, why?) Mini: Shoes

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The fact that I used this joke for my 200th "Mini" just isn't right.

They don't look too comfortable. They must be dress shoes.

On a side note, I used to wonder when I got to comics numbered in the 1900s (the century I was born in, don't you know) if I'd start trying to match up comics to significant events from the corresponding year. Now that I'm here, I realize that there are so many significant things that happened every year, so I'll cop out and say "Hey, this isn't a History comic ... except for those few times when it is!"

So ... basically, I figure I'll plan something for 1999, 2000 and 2001. And possibly 1969, being the sci-fi nut that I am, especially if it occurs around July.

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(x, why?) Mini: Similarity

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From numbskull to numberskull.

Mo' has a partner named Les. Curly has a near clone called Curly Open.

This has been a trip inside my head.

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