...se answering machines and especially voicemail were rare or nonexistent in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch t
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...taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong.
...is "π × 10<sup>7</sup>", though he later added a statement to the top of the comic page addressing this point.
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...Dear Wiccan readers: I understand modern Wiccans are not usually all about the curses and hexes. But Darth Vader was recently converted from Episcopaliani
...d comic in the [[:Category:Five-Minute Comics|Five-Minute Comics series]]. The series is composed of four comics, released between in November 2010 and Au
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| titletext = Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is tha
...task; however, this would not be helpful in improving his playing the game the normal way (though [[#Alternate Explanation|see below]]) by perhaps learnin
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{{comicsrow|470|2008-09-01|The End is Not for a While}}
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...eral mail transfer agents, and each one has to temporarily store a copy of the email. Space constraints on those mail servers means that they must impose
...}}), used to transfer files between computers on a shared network, such as the internet. However, FTP servers are a touch more esoteric than a mere email
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...oes not exceed the capacity of the knapsack, and the combined value of all the items is maximized.
...ram would be polynomial in the input size) to verify a solution, but it is unknown whether finding any or all solutions can be done in polynomial time. Polyno
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| titletext = Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to ca
...ly posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[27: Meat Cereals]], and the next one was [[34: Flowers]].
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...,Firefly,-Drawn%20in%20honor Original caption</span>]:'' Drawn in honor of the upcoming ''Serenity''! If you work very hard you can figure out who is who.
...o LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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...system actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your
{{TOC}}To view your personal version of the comic, visit the {{xkcd|1037|original comic}}.
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| titletext = Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.
...established communications with aliens living on {{w|Proxima Centauri b}}, the nearest exoplanet to Earth according to current knowledge, and [[Randall]]
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...riginally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[35: Sheep]], and the next one was [[38: Apple Jacks]].
...by saving money on his car insurance by intimidation, instead of choosing the best provider. A golf club would later also be used for similarly socially
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...ive/objective), and ye/you (plural, subjective/objective, or just "you" as the formal singulars). This is similar to second-person pronouns in many modern
...t the work is autobiographical is unknown. Also unknown is the identity of the person whom each work refers to. It is believed that Sonnet 18 is addresse
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...sed seven days earlier on LiveJournal than on xkcd.com (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->
...ts%20if Caption on LiveJournal</span>]:'' Bonus points if you can identify the science in question.
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...sed three days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (21/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->
| titletext = The malaria party was David's idea.<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://
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...eased two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (23/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->
| titletext = No two adjacent circles are the same color.
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...eased two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day-->, 2006
| titletext = The only one of these games I really played was Area 51
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...kcd]]. She frequently appears with [[Black Hat]] and, like him, represents the same character in each appearance.
...nce). Thus, she mainly appears in comics together with Black Hat, which is the most certain giveaway that a long-haired woman is Danish rather than Megan.
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...like a leap. In any event, this is another early Black Hat strip that, for the first time, explicitly sets out that he goes out of his way to wreak havoc.
...holes in the cup, Black Hat ensures that someone pouring boiling water in the cup would have it leak all over them, causing them great surprise and pain.
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| titletext = Wait, damn, I think I spotted a new email on the last refresh.
...realizing/acknowledging the inherent dangers of leaving her realm into an unknown universe.
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