...ically terrible baby names invented by Randall. It may relate to his other comics about why he shouldn't be allowed to have access to babies.
This is a list of the names with a short description:
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...ely: restarts) on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the calendar used by the Mayan culture. Knowing
...the Mayans, because the world didn't end.{{Citation needed}} It is worthy of note that this comic was published nearly a year ''before'' the "significan
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...ck bold text for the labels on most of its products (usually with an image of the product as well as the brand name), although more recently, text in acc
The style of packaging might be a reference to ''{{w|The Prisoner}}'' TV series from the
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...nt and corresponding chart about school courses. The idea is, "the subject of the class appears in the classroom" and the chart compares how dangerous an
...ght are also mentioned. See details about all the subjects in the [[#Table of subjects|table]] below.
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...rson deciding to sentence him to death, instead of confirming his position of Internet Secretary. Black Hat replies that he was "never interested in taki
...plain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Category:Secretary|Secretary series]]:
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...just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to...
...isinformation but make said misinformation seem reliable through a process of "circular reporting".
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...p games), but in last night's game their win seriously damaged the chances of the Yankees (longstanding rival team)."
...dge domain. Cheat sheets are commonly used in mathematical applications to list important formulas or for measurement conversions; but they may also be use
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This comic consists of a chart where [[Randall]] has plotted {{w|fruits}} according to two criteri
...rated a lot of discussion. That comic indicated that Randall had [[#Change of taste|changed his taste]] over the years. Later, Randall suggests using a [
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...hich would mean the winner gets to donate the prize money to their charity of choice. In the fifth panel Fillion, takes the phrase and twists it to mean
Electric skateboards have been the subject of several other comics like [[139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards]], [[409: Electric Skateb
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*To experience the interactivity of the game, visit the {{xkcd|1110|original comic}}.
...ecause it is so big and there are so many different things happening in it all at once. [[Cueball]] comments about this while hanging from a balloon, whic
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...a password is. It is calculated as ''log2(a^b)'' where ''a'' is the number of allowed symbols and ''b'' is its length.
...ressed with log2(65000*94*94), with 65000 representing a rough estimate of all dictionary words people are likely to choose. (For related info, see https:
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| titletext = What's the complexity class of the best linear programming cutting-plane techniques? I couldn't find it an
...e shortest one. However, this approach will take a long time as the number of possible routes increases superexponentially as more nodes are included.
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...rticle is about the text at the bottom of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. For comics featuring footnotes, see [[:Category:Footnotes]].''
...e's history, with a gap of 22 days without any footnotes after the removal of the original footnote.
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...comic refers to the study of {{w|cryptography}}. We can note the presence of the {{w|International Association for Cryptologic Research|International As
...o ensure that the process can eventually be reversed. One common component of round functions is the {{w|S-box}}, a simple table that converts input byte
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...nch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.
...ct he has found out that the {{w|inland taipan}}'s has the deadliest venom of any snake (see [[#Snake venom|more]] below).
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| titletext = The Wikipedia page List of Numbers opens with "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."
...ion). Negative numbers may be called imitator numbers in the comic because of their similarities to positive numbers.
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| titletext = The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good rea
[[Randall]] is showing the number of still living humans who have walked on another world for the 65-year period
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...aster, it must, as a result of {{w|Bernoulli's Principle}}, create an area of lower pressure above the wing; this causes {{w|lift (force)|lift}} (that is
...eory is true, can planes fly upside down? (If the simple airfoil theory is all that permits planes to stay up in the air, then flying upside down should r
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| title = Five-Minute Comics: Part 1
| image = five minute comics part 1.png
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...structure, or any number of other kludges and hacks which turn maintenance of the code into a nightmare; or else it is written well and beautifully struc
...rse, the writing of this new program is also locked in the perpetual cycle of choosing between ugly/bad code that works marginally well, or good/pretty c
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