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* MissingEpisode: For Even before the [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes whole website went under]], many comics had been removed for unknown reasons, quite a few comics have been removed. reasons. In particular, it seems like comics involving sex and/or stereotypes are were more likely to be taken down. The missing comics are were skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can could still try to send you to one, which will would give you a 404 page. Here's a mostly complete list of missing comics: comics:



** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915194054/http://spikedmath.com/561.html 561 - Video comics #1 and #2]]: Two video comics. Oddly, the videos are still available on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxCgZpnvT8w1PWrYAo5R6bA the comic's YouTube channel]]

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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915194054/http://spikedmath.com/561.html 561 - Video comics #1 and #2]]: Two video comics. Oddly, the The videos are still available on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxCgZpnvT8w1PWrYAo5R6bA themselves have been deleted from the comic's YouTube channel]][=YouTube=] channel.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: As of 2021, the comic is offline. However, it has been preserved in the Internet Archive.



* ScheduleSlip: The comic was daily for its first months, but then started to slow down. On January 31, 2012, the author admitted that he hadn't updated "in like FOREVER" (since January 19) and announced a new schedule with one comic a week at summer, and two otherwise. He ended up missing several weeks, including all of June and September 2013. The slip would get worse: 2014 had eleven comics in total, 2015 had ten, 2016 had two (both in January), 2017 had none, 2018 had seven (all in September or October), and 2019 had none.

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* ScheduleSlip: The comic was daily for its first months, but then started to slow down. On January 31, 2012, the author admitted that he hadn't updated "in like FOREVER" (since January 19) and announced a new schedule with one comic a week at summer, and two otherwise. He ended up missing several weeks, including all of June and September 2013. The slip would get worse: 2014 had eleven comics in total, 2015 had ten, 2016 had two (both in January), 2017 had none, 2018 had and the seven (all in September or October), and 2019 had none.comics from 2018 turned out to be the last.
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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624220928/http://spikedmath.com/036.html 036 - Difference Between Numbers And People]]: It's a period joke. The original version was incorrect, but gets a "fixed" version that points out the mistake.

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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624220928/http://spikedmath.com/036.html 036 - Difference Between Numbers And People]]: It's a period joke. The original version was incorrect, but gets contains an ambiguous statement whose most obvious interpretation is false (a number with a decimal point ''can'' be irrational), which is pointed out in the "fixed" version that points out on the mistake.same page.

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* MissingEpisode: For unknown reasons, quite a few comics have been removed. In particular, it seems like comics involving sex and/or stereotypes are more likely to be taken down. The missing comics are skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can still try to send you to one, which will give you a 404 page. Here are some of the missing comics:

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* MissingEpisode: For unknown reasons, quite a few comics have been removed. In particular, it seems like comics involving sex and/or stereotypes are more likely to be taken down. The missing comics are skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can still try to send you to one, which will give you a 404 page. Here are some Here's a mostly complete list of the missing comics:


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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153141/http://spikedmath.com/334.html 334 - How to drive a mathematician crazy]]: A girl tries the missing dollar riddle on a mathematician. He recognizes the riddle and tries to explain the solution as she starts telling the riddle, but to his frustration, he keeps going.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151218/http://spikedmath.com/335.html 335 - How to drive a mathematician crazy]]: Similar to the above, except that the mathematician decides to hide his frustration and play along because "OMG! Boob girl is talking to me!!"
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152527/http://spikedmath.com/367.html 367 - Ow Man]]: Uses a questionable fraction to explain why a man should always be on top.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152902/http://spikedmath.com/380.html 380 - How would you respond?]]: Mike says that he's a mathematician, and the woman says that he can't be a good one because he seems pretty normal.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014145605/http://spikedmath.com/390.html 390 - The Pigeonhole Principle]]: Lists a few applications of the the pigeonhole principle. The last one is proving infidelity.


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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014150208/http://spikedmath.com/399.html 399 - I hate pi day]]: A student hates pi day... until he's informed that it includes chocolate pie.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014145313/http://spikedmath.com/437.html 437 - Assymptote]]: Compares an asymptote to a stripper's ass.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153156/http://spikedmath.com/467.html 467 - Assistant to the Assistant Managing Editor]]: Is about the frustrations of some poor guy who has to help prepare a proof for a professor, which turns out to be tricky because of the prof's terrible [=LaTeX=] code.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152251/http://spikedmath.com/525.html 525 - Power Set]]: Uses the power set to make a threesome joke.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121007013316/http://spikedmath.com/528.html 528 - Public Perception]]: Pokes fun at the public perception of mathematicians.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915194054/http://spikedmath.com/561.html 561 - Video comics #1 and #2]]: Two video comics. Oddly, the videos are still available on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxCgZpnvT8w1PWrYAo5R6bA the comic's YouTube channel]]
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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624175410/http://spikedmath.com/090.html 090 - Squeeze Theorem]]: A woman suggests using the Squeexe Theorem to calculate a limit... and the man decides to squeeze her boobs.

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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624175410/http://spikedmath.com/090.html 090 - Squeeze Theorem]]: A woman suggests using the Squeexe Squeeze Theorem to calculate a limit... and the man decides to squeeze her boobs.



** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624183937/http://spikedmath.com/145.html 145 - Living in a Nullspace]]: According to this comic, if you live with a woman, all your money will get mapped to zero. The comic also calls men rational, but very dense.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624231402/http://spikedmath.com/148.html 148 - Alice's Brackets]]: A comic that uses coordinates like (0,0) to represent breasts.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624215209/http://spikedmath.com/158.html 158 - Millenium Prize Problems]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624211005/http://spikedmath.com/160.html 160 - Professors, sigh.]]: Professors argue about which type of math is more important.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625014333/http://spikedmath.com/161.html 161 - Favorite Color]]: It's a hex color code.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624203823/http://spikedmath.com/163.html 163 - Sweet Talk]]: A guy uses math puns to say that he find a girl sexy, and asks if she wants to 69.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625025005/http://spikedmath.com/167.html 167 - Meeting Girls]]: A mathematician tries to explain his occupation in layman's terms. The girl understands what kind of math he's talking about.



** 266 and 267 - The adventures of Erdos parts [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107205814/http://spikedmath.com/266.html 1]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107153936/http://spikedmath.com/267.html 2]]: Two anecdotes about Paul Erdős.

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** 266 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625012452/http://spikedmath.com/170.html 170 - Cauchy-Schwartz Inequality]]: Hermann Schwarz is frustrated that people keep misspelling his name as "Schwarts"
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624183909/http://spikedmath.com/171.html 171 - 171]]: The comic is an empty white rectangle. Caption: "I'm not as clever as Mr Burke".
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625000137/http://spikedmath.com/179.html 179 - I really really love lie algebras!]]: A guy puts a Lie algebra book into his pants.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624222234/http://spikedmath.com/204.html 204 - j]]: A comic that mocks people who use ''j'' instead of ''i'' to represent the imaginary unit.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625000235/http://spikedmath.com/220.html 220 - Dirty Physics]]: A "comic in 11 dimensions", where the dirty stuff is hidden behind the 6th
and 267 9th.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624172815/http://spikedmath.com/222.html 222 - Sesame Street]]: A The Count parody who can't count.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624233232/http://spikedmath.com/223.html 223 - Terence Tao]]: A female math cartoonist dreams that Terence Tao, who is coming to give a math lecture, will reveal that he loves her comics and propose to her.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624225716/http://spikedmath.com/226.html 226 - Bayesian Interference]]: A guy tries to calculate the probability of having sex tonight.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624181749/http://spikedmath.com/227.html 227 - Pranks]]: Tells you that mathematicians are not much of pranksters.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625031334/http://spikedmath.com/231.html 231 - Addictions]]: A comic that portrays a mathematician as addicted to math and mentions that it's considered a respectable career.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625035039/http://spikedmath.com/232.html 232 - How much math do you know?]]: A comic that claims mathematicians ''think'' they know practically all of it, when the true amount is about 0.35% of it.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120609184221/http://spikedmath.com/233.html 233 - Erdos - Mathematician by day, mathematician by night]]: A comic about Paul Erdős being weird.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120609184019/http://spikedmath.com/235.html 235 - He Loves Me]]: A mathematician ruins a girl's love fantasy by pointing out that most flowers have an odd number of petals.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622094456/http://spikedmath.com/262.html 262 - Just another day]]: A guy who incorporates pronic numbers into his routine.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624202954/http://spikedmath.com/263.html 263]]: Uses the URL of a comic, but is actually examples of math-y T-shirt designs.
** 266-270
- The adventures of Erdos parts [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107205814/http://spikedmath.com/266.html 1]] and 1]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107153936/http://spikedmath.com/267.html 2]]: Two anecdotes 2]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153146/http://spikedmath.com/268.html 3]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014144814/http://spikedmath.com/269.html 4]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151954/http://spikedmath.com/270.html 5]]: Anecdotes about Paul Erdős.Erdős.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151536/http://spikedmath.com/281.html 281 - Fun with profs]]: A story told from the perspective of a new grad student.


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** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151919/http://spikedmath.com/291.html 291 - The first time I tried to prove a theorem]]
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153106/http://spikedmath.com/300.html 300 - Mingle with singles]]: Einstein, Rényi and Erdős are going to mingle with singles.

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* MissingEpisode: For whatever reason, some comics have been removed. The missing comics are skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can still try to send you to one, which will give you a 404 page. One example of this is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107203813/http://spikedmath.com/308.html comic 308 - Guide to being a successful teacher]].

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%%Last comic number that has been checked: 138
* MissingEpisode: For whatever reason, some unknown reasons, quite a few comics have been removed. The missing comics are skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can still try to send you to one, which will give you a 404 page. One example Here are some of this is the missing comics:
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[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107230739/http://spikedmath.com/006.html 006 - Clever Alex]]: Alex wants to know if a girl is under 16 before he "roots" her.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107200159/http://spikedmath.com/021.html 021 - Flowers]]: Albert the flower feels left out because he's the only one whose number of petals is not a Fibonacci number.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107213150/http://spikedmath.com/023.html 023 - I Like My Girls]]: A girl and a guy mention their preferences in men/women and numbers.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614191743/http://spikedmath.com/024.html 024 - Fractalman]]: Fractalman, a superhero whose power is "I have lots of penises".
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622055846/http://spikedmath.com/026.html 026 - Mathematicians]]: Shows that mathematicians may say something like "7.43" if asked for a number between 1 and 10.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622070543/http://spikedmath.com/029.html 029 - New Bike]]: An old sex joke in comic form.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625042936/http://spikedmath.com/032.html 032 - Your Mom]]: Math-flavoured YourMom jokes.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624213211/http://spikedmath.com/033.html 033 - Why Math?]]: Because sudoku, apparently.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624220928/http://spikedmath.com/036.html 036 - Difference Between Numbers And People]]: It's a period joke. The original version was incorrect, but gets a "fixed" version that points out the mistake.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625012228/http://spikedmath.com/047.html 047 - Love Tunnel]]: 2 and 5 ride a love tunnel.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107222508/http://spikedmath.com/061.html 061 - Almost Every Graph]]: Albert the graph feels left out because he doesn't have [=K3=] (basically a triangle) as a subgraph.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107135630/http://spikedmath.com/065.html 065 - Stupid Question]]: A student asks a stupid question.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107204647/http://spikedmath.com/066.html 066 - He Figured It Out]]: A strange comic in which a gay mathematician figures out that "straight + beer = gay" and buys a lot of beer.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107220950/http://spikedmath.com/070.html 070 - Don't Forget To Bring A Towel]]: A professor has to teach while wearing a ''towel'' because his crazy ex-wife took his money.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107144059/http://spikedmath.com/084.html 084 - Finally Got A Job]]: Alex gets a job at a fast food restaurant after getting his [=PhD=].
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624175410/http://spikedmath.com/090.html 090 - Squeeze Theorem]]: A woman suggests using the Squeexe Theorem to calculate a limit... and the man decides to squeeze her boobs.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624204442/http://spikedmath.com/108.html 108 - Matchmaking]]: A comic where numbers are paired up with corresponding logarithms. The creator admitted that this was a reject comic.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624212920/http://spikedmath.com/130.html 130 - New Years]]: A mathematician counts down using prime numbers.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625030702/http://spikedmath.com/138.html 138 - I Like My Women Like I Like My Math]]: "Easy and at a high school level"
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107144134/http://spikedmath.com/169.html 169 - Bullies Can Be So Mean 2]]: A group of cubes bully a graph for being "plain". Oddly, the other comic about cube bullies (022) is still online.
** 266 and 267 - The adventures of Erdos parts [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107205814/http://spikedmath.com/266.html 1]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107153936/http://spikedmath.com/267.html 2]]: Two anecdotes about Paul Erdős.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315073037/http://spikedmath.com/287.html 287 - The Date Graph]]: A guy uses a graph to find out how many girls he can date at once without getting caught.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107143214/http://spikedmath.com/304.html 304 - PhD blues]]: A comic that tells you to cope with [=PhD=] blues by comparing yourself to those who are dumber.
** [[https://web.
archive.org/web/20120107203813/http://spikedmath.com/308.html comic 308 - Guide to being a successful teacher]].teacher]].
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120122073927/http://spikedmath.com/321.html 321 - Math Halloween Costume Ideas]]: A list of math-themed Halloween costumes.
** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107145326/http://spikedmath.com/397.html 397 - Uncommon methods of numerical integration]]: Integration meets dick jokes.
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* ScheduleSlip: The comic didn't really have a fixed schedule at any time, but it seemed to be going for at least one comic a month. The output started to slow down in 2012. June and September 2013 had no comics, and it would get worse: 2014 had eleven comics, 2015 had ten, 2016 had two (both in January), 2017 had ''none'', 2018 had seven (all in September or October), and 2019 had none.

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* ScheduleSlip: The comic didn't really have a fixed schedule at any time, was daily for its first months, but it seemed to be going for at least one comic a month. The output then started to slow down in 2012. down. On January 31, 2012, the author admitted that he hadn't updated "in like FOREVER" (since January 19) and announced a new schedule with one comic a week at summer, and two otherwise. He ended up missing several weeks, including all of June and September 2013 had no comics, and it 2013. The slip would get worse: 2014 had eleven comics, comics in total, 2015 had ten, 2016 had two (both in January), 2017 had ''none'', none, 2018 had seven (all in September or October), and 2019 had none.
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* MissingEpisode: For whatever reason, some comics have been removed. The missing comics are skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button can still try to send you to one, which will give you a 404 page. One example of this is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107203813/http://spikedmath.com/308.html comic 308 - Guide to being a successful teacher]].
* ScheduleSlip: The comic didn't really have a fixed schedule at any time, but it seemed to be going for at least one comic a month. The output started to slow down in 2012. June and September 2013 had no comics, and it would get worse: 2014 had eleven comics, 2015 had ten, 2016 had two (both in January), 2017 had ''none'', 2018 had seven (all in September or October), and 2019 had none.

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