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this is for all those girls whose high school boyfriends told them they “r =1-sin(theta)” them:

(of course, any girl who is embedding an xkcd comic into her blog is retroactively just asking for the kind of boyfriend who would tell her that…)

3 Comments

  1. yosef wrote:

    and just for the record, I have never said anything remotely similar to that.

    Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
  2. Rachel wrote:

    True, dat. In fact, the guy who used to say this to me ended up being a biology professor, so that tells you how unimpressive his math skills were (exactly as unimpressive as his social skills; or maybe impressively poor…same same, right?)

    Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm | Permalink
  3. Leiran wrote:

    Anecdotally, the answer to all of the above problem sets is 0, assuming is a constant. That says something about the world, I think.

    Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 9:13 pm | Permalink

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