this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"What precision?" - That's how you know it's going to get serious. Then after he receives the response, he just replies with "80085".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I can confidently say that the answer is "SYNTAX ERROR."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Right away, I can tell it's not going to be easy. No square number ends with 2, 3, 7 or 8.

Assuming the number is square, the first digit can be found through successive approximation, the last digit is then mapped to 0→0, 1→1/9, 4→2/8, 5→5, 6→4/6, 9→3/7. To differentiate between the low/high number in ambiguous cases, one can estimate the difference from the bottom/top of the decade, compare to ⌷5² (can be calculated with an easy trick) or check for division by 3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's what "square number" means.

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

thanks, first time I'm seeing this, not a native speaker

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is completely off-topic, but scrolling by this post in my feed on my phone caused the angled black lines in the background to appear animated. Very bizarre. I'm not sure if it was an optical illusion or something funky is going on with my screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same. iPhone SE 2nd generation. On what ever app has a blue mouse icon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well that's an interesting coincidence! I'm using the same iPhone on what I assume is the same app Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Best I can do is five dollars

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Low Tech encryption breaking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

About 2,29.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Or to be a bit more precise:

72.4430811050993330125904653358725313044169957127755222126539298401492638461284738670796854287279274115660841204694227826436439325980039157896420081657928876032632679810228518608033139213766710296444707134986831702485581108032999991405456106614042979628466230712776493000180767189105856091218496488288548058839987131202864268840183386039574160914941768149160531896245992733832203085382984183039895507794715856167332439906833550299682550978460525719985662385293417913486089130445921322886626279799726698408057490558248303833340690609497529792299976411413532880634241772537421037522489488744777431128646049512779326499956926639019391772663041024960810753888214395954208395691508076754870626671504762430642210761247110304179233862709659762264238887380621226348908975033860837971831079866796449632799375639943790109263239643846318538296016955914222317381021044688777374685415841374166540862323241255532133952041263855816675915050740327441498082101687624893259742067226749157686740379363034880074115312331380668746857296684394669891443221207666805793208844367537721929669654898094484177017965133054023942445221059798684557460420060298197242089909604956680225509966352251876583217180069102731215059670290109501535220861840041429718717130771840934893219266406548641949776348929394907604710665225901779231019747812051178923720126258382244066815536328008244473915148631105593605409064168220988818116803495215766086804093723551393572583857162266546241558387050613510332053365449632876052925585911202181050402734551690784362741734005561775882948060676624124441391731897235361804220810049479116070578419762621272725995815944537811494806157871918609804146187933183643355641612894026720854713887992947135315754057558936021163724581614356738080106330071867446890395169019197784187885262198427377448038487265956628911619265153716228433106291639872568455734561306531928553865892149388366555459335075406915037654955697499244217950755767297871770775317672541576009503505257696608783123634960312205864235749164758331281954991034804386314910207944014031946435282396722041872310304838594446742638406100274820406803476801099471585656859436868254825875111814085211056408557388457734495700809576321733878418880047995574412710571166170004802228893489273505988933074107457135492004122531742768435664700594985881713543186051762915493354758266307457882309391015561729801235329815283962365358009220434672975660652911139756271336774779455821572038087861762561147804347455654940518611331386144378915650404847325815273772741180813700082147806589908179956345554949490062088224446978807968817158703315146593303370282909594469675729371934529499414829219617507778310861541311807083933257597107955257500983746979400126529699344938460295837160587018658418504189176898733182577863755466445825144629202218661888157211944702253626517674048403167821756470534962919467209403292326658216431373521393434869238149580726382296222819949114256300374732962473297537347778464929939580769893476184721769549426981496092333952636093759037334042613275015147256643048422625452818167624229459993575551500092120030095702948848803812118673029874063802261535874183263895717845127382128611698837382119435130660847861120686649251087876755284961165859575191680678631039757788749905717391070827467813868016403908135749905412742364282830313131145955867756493449345320390911692817697329467156079368454234238110503152483165618032712654982002108802709701758458090017032862715849963406050425847208796201800497096190840339936758238623549625080984142144101109306730471545501748052005355719286716593802028610437777415812635629237158350592511167924567488765426553771118416980634146766178269643033755662467631365922547899062344444424890080293603468500065692366798633274585647187279220848622769635236035383657681574485044382511424511428501758087751101640118432762389122416389603153624230528223439518687613918638764455640512568890631449141734105267187797289801967340928464708061191180045967991968441737681020831149940624352820606954970935780101444377191965531583144785726118579314910667009742310317824149287987972932534350488613697719229936431064796928750012789535525427949194519869711022185381715015500857359110512567185612969090186711...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

To be significantly less precise, "Math."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What did you just call me?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Listen buddy. Did you 192 my wife?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To be even more-precise, 8√82.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be at least equally precise but only slightly more pedantic, √5248.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

This is exactly the conversation I was hoping to see in these comments