B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 20, 2009

Approximately.

Was all that really worth it?

I like his sarcastic expression in the last panel.

For very large values of A, O and P.

Fruit salad! (Cue the Wiggles.)

Don’t let a math teacher see panels 6-8

Fruits? shoot, he coulda gone to ess eff for that.

JO-JO You took the words right out of my mouth. (Wiggles?)

I would’ve said “three fruits” right away.

Wow, Josh, you’re SHARP!

Peter would probably get part marks for showing his work although it is a rather long-winded way of coming up with 3 fruit.

I’d probably say a fruit salad waiting to happen.

Is that algebra for fruits? Fruit algebra or an algebra fruit whatevahh!

Looks like government work to me.

Actually, he gets bad marks for showing his work. He done divided by zero.

That’s what I had when the IRS was finished with me .

3 zeros divided by zero .

So… how did Peter go from a LOT of incorrect math (X = 1^3, for example) to a logical notation? Anybody?

Oh, and fesal, there’s an error in simplification somewhere in there… I’ve seen that proof before, and a math teacher tried to pass it off as correct. Didn’t fly with a sophomore in my calculus class.

X=(AOP) is incorrect. AOP written as such is 1x1x1=1.

He should have written that X is a function of A,O,P such that

X=f(A,O,P)

(shouldn’t let engineers read this one either I guess)

(a-b)^2 = (a+b)(a-b) = a^2 -2ab -b^2

I have no idea what any of you Math buffs are talking about which is why I’m an English major. :-P