xkcd #2956: Number Line Branch

https://xkcd.com/2956

Alt text:

Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

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_different_username@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Is that the symbol for bleem?

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What the hell did I just read?

davidgro@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A proto-SCP

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I feel like the ending is supposed to suggest bleem exists but rereading it, it sounds like he smacked 4 jelly beans across the room.

davidgro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

(spoiler) It explicitly says there were 3 before, but also 3 after one was eaten.

Kowowow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y

Looks like the split starts at pi

PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y

What if we switch to electric numbers?

MBM@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 2y

Flashbacks to topology

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

i like the detail that it's public transport, not a lane

because another lane of numbers would just result in even more math being done, and we'd be back to the same if not worse notebook congestion