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Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Guest » Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:20 am

That's nonsense, the smallest uninteresting natural number is 4. Being the smallest uninteresting number doesn't make it any more interesting than the fact that it's a perfect square. It's just not interesting. Unless it's applied to mutant ninjas.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Deddy » Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:40 pm

am I the only one that thought the induction joke was kinda funny?
and that didn't understood how's DeMorgan's law will prove that she loves him...

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Peon » Mon Oct 27, 2014 5:03 pm

He's good at jokes and bad at induction jokes. I probably wouldn't trust him to prove something by induction.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Kaharz » Mon Oct 27, 2014 11:41 am

Toper wrote:Unfortunately, he's not really good at math, and the proof doesn't work with unordered set elements.
Maybe Zach is good at math and just bad at jokes

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Toper » Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:07 pm

It's more like the well-known joke proof that all numbers are interesting; in fact it's so similar that I assumed Zach was thinking of that when he wrote the comic.

Unfortunately, he's not really good at math, and the proof doesn't work with unordered set elements.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by AmagicalFishy » Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:51 am

Outside of trying to make it induction—this is pretty close to Russell's Paradox. :v

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Peon » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:13 pm

For his next trick, Zach will show us with induction that all horses are the same color.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by lame » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:53 pm

I came here to say that! 2 non special people and 1 special clearly works.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Peon » Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:49 pm

I can't wait until SMBC is nothing but bad induction "jokes".


If more than one person in the set is special only by virtue of being the only non-special person, then they're not really special, because there are multiple people with this property.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by dangerkeith300 » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:46 pm

Guest wrote:Does anyone else think this comic was made because of the criticism of the "induction" in the party one?
That's what I thought upon first reading it.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Guest » Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:37 am

Does anyone else think this comic was made because of the criticism of the "induction" in the party one?

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by koreiryuu » Mon Oct 20, 2014 6:37 pm

Considering the votee, I'd agree it was a mistake.

Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Random internaut » Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:29 pm

I'm pretty sure Zack made a hilarious mistake in the last panel:

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Re: [2014-10-20] Special

by Sahan » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:31 pm

It's just a weak joke. Though the mixed up speech bubbles makes it at least mildly entertaining in a stupid, non-sequitor sort of way.

[2014-10-20] Special

by Dev Null » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:26 pm

Special.

So, uhm.... is it just me, and I'm missing some subtle joke? Or are the speech bubbles in the last panel the wrong way round?

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