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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - February 7, 2010Rating: 4.6/5 (17 votes cast)
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This comic is worth one thousand words!
Well if you want to pedantic, it's worth 72 words.
I'll show you.
Assuming each part of the mathematical equations to be one word, so that "0.5" = 1w, "P" = 1w, and operators = 1w, then the panel breakdown is 15, 23, 33, and 1, respectively.
So, unless I added wrong, that comes up to 72, and thus this comic is only 72 words.
Unless you count the copyright information, in which case I would say +3w, since I'd say "spikedmath.com" is one word, and the copyright symbol is an abbreviation of one (compound) word.
but what about the images in it? those are worth ALOT of words.
unless the picture is worth infinite words
Now that's just silly Adrian...
Well if you ripped a picture in half it would be two pictures so two thousand words, but yeah, basically lol.
P=1000W (Given)
P/2=P (Given)
1000W=P/2 (Transitive)
P/2=500W (Substitution)
1000W=500W (Transitive)
1000W - 500W = 0 (Subtr. Prop. =)
500W=0 (Substitution)
W=0 (Div. Prop. =)
So a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth nothing :D
Damn true. Nice reply.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you should send the thousand words: the picture takes 100K or 10M, whereas the thousand words take about 10K. The words are much cheaper to transmit!
100K ≠ 10M
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a word is worth a millipicture.
I only have eight words for your picture.
This comic doesn't make any sense!
For example:
A given density of a box: In this case the number "1"
Rho = P
Now if you rip the box into two equally pieces...
The density of the two boxes still equals 1.
Therefore in my head the starting equation "P = 0.5*P" is wrong...
If you do what the creator of this comic did in my example it would probably look like this:
P = 0.5*P
1 = 0.5*1
1 = 0.5
But I'm open minded that my knowledge to math isn't that great! So please tell me why/how "P = 0.5*P" is possible. :)
I hope you understand my point :)
Your calculation doesn't work precisely because P=0. You can't divide by it.
Heh... I see that :) But to assume that P = 0 is total nutts?
I maybe got this all wrong, but... As the "first kid" said: "A picture is worth a thousend words." And that counts even if the said picture is ripped in half! So therefore P must equal "1000"? How the hell can the "nerd" in the picture assume that P = 0?
Again, I don't get the meaning of this comic =P So am I missing the point?
Actually, I think P = 8, which means
8=P
Because the acceptable range of worth is all real numbers, including zero. The density of matter, however, has a range of p < 0. If p were to equal zero, there would be no matter and therefore no density to be measured. It can't happen.
Thats why your analogy does not work.
Alternatively, half a picture is only worth 500 words. Unless it's a hologram, in which case each half is the whole picture, and so it's still worth 1000 words...but only from half as many perspectives.
Of course, all of us who argued and came up with proofs for this or that fit the fourth panel: "nerd."
You could also say, that a picture is worth aleph 0.
Yeah, but what you all didn't take into account was that my dick is bigger.
Oh no! They didn't count that! It's changing the whole mathematics since Euler. Oh humanity! We are lost
well, they could argue about ripping each of those in half...while the comic would be 'ripped in half', and the limit of the total number of words exchanged would taper - as the comic becomes 0 in size - to 1000! it's proven!
I suggest watching the movie "The number 23." It really dives into the issue of complex mathematical logarithms and lanthanoids.
The nerd in me compells me to point out that given the logic in the proof, the following proof also becomes valid.
x=.999...
10x=9.999...
10x-x=9.999...
9x=9
x=1
1=.999...
1-1=.999...-1
0=(-1/10^-infinity)
0/(-1/10^-infinity)=(-1/10^-infinity)/(-1/10^-infinity)
0=1
Given the above proof, any given value now has an infinite amount of other possible vallues. So the value of the picture is potential 1000 words or 0 words. its all in the eye of the beholder.
sry mistype above. its +infinity not -. colds, late night websurffing and math dont mix. nore does spelling.