Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 28, 2021

π is equal to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612847564823378678316527120190914564856692346034861045432664821…etc.

Dirty numbers… 80085 with a pocket calculator :)

Caulfield is too young to know about numbers slightly over 68 or slightly under 70.

There ARE dirty numbers. Two of them start with 6, then continue with either 9 or 66. Bear in mind that “dirty” is in the mind of the perceiver. Numbers can be arbitrarily large, but none of them IS infinite. Words work in much the same way. I just made up “perceiver” for instance. And I really do kind of wonder if a number can “exist”. A number is a concept. Or even a meta concept: “Six”, according to some IS “the set of all sets with six elements.”

Can numbers really lie?!?

Caulfield does have a lot to learn about real life.

It’s not logic when you start with a false premise.

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” —falsely attributed to Mark Twain

A number of sticks can break your bones but a number of words will just make you chatty.

Statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do.

This is too early for me….my brain hurts!

I like 666 or if you wish DCLXVI which style of number you prefer.

that poor teacher must not have enough coffee from the world to tolerate the madness those kids put her through.

“It’s only words and words are all I have to take your heart away”. Beegees.

But remember, 42 IS the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything!!

Guess this was the wrong day to look for a laugh from Frazz. But Caulfield is always an orbit away from most of us, so it works.

6* is dirty? Dang! What about 3.33__?

420.

There exist something called “dirty primes”. Two prime number that differ by 6 are called dirty primes because the Latin word for ‘six’ is ‘sex’. 5 and 11 is an example because their difference is six.

Some numbers lie, according to math teachers and the IRS.

No number is infinite, but a word is infinite, or rather infinite is a word.

Every number exists as a word or phrase, and words are representations of ideas, actions, and relationships, but are not the things they represent.

You know? Even 420 is 6 if you add the digits.

All the books, and correspondence since the beginning of the human race will never match the large numbers Graham’s number for example.

All the numbers were competing to see who was the scariest. 13: I’m the most terrifying number. 666: Aww, you’re cute. 2020: yeah, hold my beer….

His analogy is unfortunately misaligned.

There are imaginary numbers in higher math. Are there imaginary letters?

Novel questions? Not really… they have been asked repeatedly since there were humans.

HAS every number always existed? I imagine that sufficiently high ones have never been implemented. Indeed, “googolplex” is a relatively recent coinage we’ll probably never need.

Dirty is in the mind of the thinker and is dependent upon your cultural viewpoint. What might be dirty for you might be neutral to someone on the other side of the world. In Europe the sight of a naked female breast in the movies or on television is no big deal, but the bloody violence on USAian tv and movies gets an 18+ (NC-17) rating, whereas in the USA a skirt that is thigh high or too much cleavage causes the bluenoses to clutch at their pearls and fall on their fainting couches.

Infinite creativity has been bestowed upon us by our Infinite Creator. What will you do with your power? No two comments the same.

3825!

I commented to a local radio station about that incident and while, yes, the Michigan High School Athletic Association has “rules” concerning such language, some gentle exceptions have to be made. I was at a high school soccer match once when a star player from Team A had a wide-open shot on net and missed the goal by just a couple of feet. He was on the far side of the field, slowing down to run back to midfield when he called himself a “dumb *” because of the miss. Only one person heard him: the referee. And while the kid’s words were directed solely at himself, the man with the striped shirt invoked the letter of the law and gave the player a red card, which meant an instant disqualification. While it’s likely the X-C runner’s comment was heard by many, it’s still a bullsh*t rule in that situation and a little bit of discretion should have been practiced. Like Concretionist wrote in an earlier post, “dirty” is in the mind of the perceiver/hearer. It’s like pornography; no one can define it, “but I know it when I see it.”

There are no bad words and bad numbers. All of it is magical thinking not reality.Superstitions and who won the war of conquest concerning words. Saxons’ vs Britons.

We need a cereal with shapes from one to ten , so accountants can crunch numbers for breakfast

420

DCLXVI