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First time writing a transcript, how'd I do? [[User:IJustWantToEditStuff|IJustWantToEditStuff]] ([[User talk:IJustWantToEditStuff|talk]]) 07:40, 3 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
:It was a good start. Usually we have colon before each sentence. Also we write all text outside of the square brackets. Even if it is just numbers. When I got here there had been added more. Anytime there are something with color it should be mentioned in the transcript. It is also for those that have poor eyesight. I have now made a version that I think is complete. I'm probably the one that have made most transcripts/completed most at least. But I usually get a lot of help from what other people have made before. Just making them all more alike, following the general rules. So keep up the good work. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:51, 4 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Transcript is absolutely fine... Explanation, though, doesn't really explain any more than I already knew, and I still don't "get it". Maybe 'cause I'm dumb after all. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.129|108.162.241.129]] 15:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
:Perhaps it has to do with Pythagoras and stuff, that at last the “problem” of right triangles with catheti lengths of integers having hypotenuse lengths that are irrational is “solved”. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | [https://www.google.com Google search] | current time: {{CURRENTTIME}}) 15:27, 3 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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I think this is the comic that made me realize that Randall has never been funny and I've just been checking the comic out of habit. {{unsigned ip|108.162.221.107}}<br />
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I think a lot of the time he’s just being silly. It doesn’t have to be super deep. It made me chuckle. Not his best, but he’s made 3 comics a week 2,706 times. They’re not all gonna be S-tier. {{unsigned ip|172.70.54.52}}<br />
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I suspect there's also a tie-in with comic 2509 which actually gave the formula for the area (not the volume). I suspect the length of the lines in the right-hand side including the bendy parts, are actually 5. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.106.20|162.158.106.20]] 21:06, 3 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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Also see this: (It's not a joke. It may even appear in math tests. Sorry, but I can't upload images) --[[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 18:37, 4 December 2022 (UTC)<br />
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: i.e. remember that limits exist? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.48|172.70.134.48]] 20:34, 4 December 2022 (UTC)Bumpf</div>172.70.134.48https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2706:_Bendy&diff=3003292706: Bendy2022-12-03T22:45:30Z<p>172.70.134.48: Revert page wipe by AndroidTheLucario</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2706<br />
| date = December 2, 2022<br />
| title = Bendy<br />
| image = bendy_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 291x209px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = [[File:Adolf-hitler-medium.jpg]] '''Auschw1tz engineers used Bendy triangles to construct gas chambers that could accommodate significantly more J3ws than was previously considered physically possible, which allowed them to be gassed at an incredible rate of 6 million deaths in just three years.'''<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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The original triangle, without bendy lines, is an example of a {{w|Pythagorean triple}}. Randall 'simplifies' this by adding squiggles to the two sides in order to make them longer and therefore match the length of the hypotenuse (longest side). The idea is that this would allow one to arbitrarily define side lengths and therefore avoid doing calculations to figure them out, but in practice this is not possible in geometry as the sides will no longer be lines and the shape would be by definiton no longer a triangle. The way these calculations are used in real life also render this method unusable, as the point of the calculations Randall is trying to avoid is typically to determine the length of an already-existing side. The joke here is that Randall is trying to solve a geometric problem (that is actually already solved, in this case) with non-conventional methods unrelated to the problem's application.<br />
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This comic may be a reference to axis breaks in graphs, which shrink large segments and enhance readability and are denoted by a wiggly line on the axis in question.<br />
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The title-text talks about "{{w|Squaring the circle}}", a famous geometry problem based around constructing a square with the same area as a given circle with a compass and straightedge, which was proven to be impossible (even with more powerful forms of construction, such as marked straightedges or origami) in 1882 as pi is a transcendental number (Not to be confused with {{w|Tarski's circle-squaring problem|circle-squaring}}.) However, it then goes on to describe a way to literally turn one of these bendy shapes from a circle into a square, namely using clamps.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[There are two right triangles. One triangle has side lengths of 3, 4, and 5, and is scribbled out in red. The other triangle has the same general shape but with the catheti appearing like longer but bent lines, so that all the side lengths equal 5 if straightened.]<br />
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:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:Huge geometry breakthrough: Turns out those lines we make triangles out of are bendy!<br />
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