Editing 605: Extrapolating

{{comic
| number    = 605
| date      = July 3, 2009
| title     = Extrapolating
| image     = extrapolating.png
| titletext = By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic is a joke about the incorrect application of {{w|linear extrapolation}}. By connecting two points without any context, we can come up with incredibly funny and absurd results. Here, connecting a bride's number of spouses yesterday (zero) and today—her wedding day—(one) can result in a linear extrapolation to hundreds of spouses a year. Cueball presents the accumulation of husbands as though it were a phenomenon beyond the bride's ability to control. Using similar points for pregnancy (yesterday: no babies, today: one), we can get 200+ children inside a single person by the seventh month of pregnancy.

This is another comic in the infrequent [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] series. Extrapolation and interpolation, often absurd, are also [[:Category:Extrapolation|recurrent topics]] on xkcd.

==Transcript==
:My Hobby: Extrapolating

:[There is a graph. Time runs along the horizontal axis; Number of Husbands on the vertical graph. Yesterday and today are labeled in time, 0 and 1 in number of husbands. Points are plotted with 0 at yesterday, 1 at today. A straight line is fitted through them.]
:[Cueball is holding a pointer to the graph, and looking at Megan wearing a bridal train and veil.]
:Cueball: As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands.
:Cueball: Better get a bulk rate on wedding cake.

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