1 | -> '''Black Mage''': 2 + 2 = 4 |
2 | -> '''Fighter''': You can't transform numbers into other numbers like that. It'd just go on forever. That's like Witchcraft! |
3 | -->-- ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}'' |
4 | |
5 | -> ''You know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't. \ |
6 | The whole book is full of things that have to be accepted on faith! It's a religion!'' |
7 | -->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes '' |
8 | |
9 | -> '''Calvin''': I'm not going to do my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. It would resolve the conflict and turn intriguing possibilities into boring old facts. |
10 | -> '''Hobbes''': I never really thought about the literary possibilities of maths. |
11 | -> '''Calvin''': I prefer to savor the mystery. |
12 | -->-- [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes another from Calvin and Hobbes]] |
13 | |
14 | -> How big does the jackpot have to be before the expected value of the [lottery] ticket exceeds the value is costs? Now you can go back to your eighth grade math teacher and tell her you figured out what algebra is for. |
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