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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | Mathnet was a segment on the children's television show "Square One Television," in which police mathematicians solved crimes and other mysteries with math. This comic plays on that by implying that, when the show was cancelled, the Mathnet department of the LAPD was shut down, forcing the mathematicians to become regular detectives. In the comic, a man (presumably George Frankly, the main character of the show) tries to glean some sort of mathematical meaning out of the murders, by saying that the number of bodies, two, is the third Fibonacci number (a set of numbers where each number is the sum of the previous two, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 etc.) | |
− | + | The title text goes on to extrapolate by saying that the mathematician saw a Mandelbrot set in the blood spatters, which is a formula used to create certain kinds of fractals. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[A crime scene is surrounded | + | :[A crime scene is surrounded in tape. A large black pool is on the ground, with splashes around it, and some sort of tool. Two people are standing outside the tape.] |
:Policeman: Looks like a murder-suicide. | :Policeman: Looks like a murder-suicide. | ||
:George: Any interesting mathematical patterns? | :George: Any interesting mathematical patterns? | ||
:Policeman: No, George, just two dead bodies and a lot of blood. | :Policeman: No, George, just two dead bodies and a lot of blood. | ||
− | :George: Two... | + | :George: Two... that's the third Fibonacci number! |
:Policeman: Not now, George. | :Policeman: Not now, George. | ||
− | + | When Mathnet shut down, the officers had trouble reintegrating into the regular L.A.P.D. | |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Math]] | [[Category:Math]] | ||
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