5/31/2023 0 Comments Math rage comics![]() Suppose we could choose any two numbers to perform this trick, call them and. As it turns out, there are none! Let’s see why. I was curious about the choices of twenty-five and fifty, so I wanted to see what other combinations might work. This is actually a subset of the previous boundary, and thus represents the complete set of possible values for for which this method will “work”. The subtraction here does give us a constraint, however, because we need the square of the result to be less than, otherwise, we’d have more than two digits. ,, and, so the comic boyfriend would get the correct answer of, provided he padded the single digit answer with a leading zero. For example, consider squaring the number fifty-one in this way. One might also suspect numbers larger than fifty to introduce the same sort of trouble, however, the parity of the square function saves us. This places a constraint on, namely that it must be greater than or equal to twenty-five. Of course, this is already problematic, and now consider that has more than two digits. We might end up with something like. Certainly, we wouldn’t want to resort to such a complicated algorithm for such a basic operation, but suppose we did use the formula, we’d get, so the formula version checks out, but how about the mechanical algorithm? Well,, so our first two digits are and. So, we can say that if the algorithm is performed according to the formula above, yes, this method always works, however, the comic does not directly use any formula, so let’s see where the two methods diverge, if anywhere.Ĭonsider a concrete example by letting. The first question, and the one posed in the email is, does this really work? That is, does ? A few steps of algebra get us: The last two digits come from simply subtracting the number to be squared from fifty, then squaring it. This can be represented by the expression. In both examples, twenty-five is subtracted from the number to be squared (let’s call it ) and the result is used as the first two digits of the answer. Knowing that I have an irrational love of rage faces as well as math, he knew I couldn’t resist trying to prove or disprove the algorithm presented in the comic, which I’ve displayed below (without permission) in case you didn’t follow the link. “Is this always true? I mean the math part… Stephen?” Though we’re pretty sure he really meant to say “NNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEWS in ragecomic form.A co-worker of mine recently emailed me a link to a rage face comic with the following: “I look forward to getting all my news from now on in ragecomic form,” commented angad19 on one of the new comics. So while some redditors may find news in rage comic form distasteful, it looks like its here to stay.Īnd for better or worse, some are already hoping the subreddit will become their one and only news source. In just 24 hours that community has already produced ten of the comics and reached500 subscribers. The title is a play off of the original rage comic section’s own expletive-inspired name: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU. The comic even inspired POLITE_ALLCAPS_GUY, one of the rage comic section’s moderators, to create a new section of the site. Others thought the idea was genius - a fast, visual way to learn the news online. If you’re going to inform people on a tragedy like this then do it fucking properly.” “I really hope this doesn’t become a trend,” wrote one. Many found the use of rage faces over real pictures to be distasteful. The post elicited 460 comments and no small amount of controversy from the community. Gitarham even super-imposed rage faces over well-known images from the disaster. The 40 panel comic was crudely written and drawn - a kind-of everyman version of Japan’s professionally illustrated manga news. The redditor combined them into a narrative recounting the events in Norway. No longer just about anger, the comics cover everything, from short stories with narrative, to meta commentary on Reddit, to rants about movies.Īnd yesterday, redditor Gitarham took those common templates one step further. The comics were originally nothing more than simple expressions of anger at common daily aggravations.īut on Reddit, where an entire section exists for the comics, they’ve evolved. ![]() Rage comics are user-generated comics that can be made with free online templates, most composed of crudely drawn faces, called rage faces. They may have also inspired a new Reddit art-form: the rage comic news recap. The Oslo bombing and the horrifying massacre on Utoya Island have spawned hundreds of unique threads and thousands of comments. Last week’s tragic events in Norway have been a big topic on social-news site Reddit. ![]()
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