...]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and f
...ing a wish, where the rules are discussed by the Genie that will grant him a wish.
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...ty theory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems by creating a new system of evaluation for the problems you often have instead made the p
...stands for ''Earth Standard Time'' (hence the title), but it is in itself a joke on the American {{w|Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Standard Time}}. In the
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| titletext = Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or tak
...sicists' mnemonic that it 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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...xt = Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef.
...h {{w|List of mathematical symbols|mathematical symbols}} would be good in a fight if they were made corporeal in two (or three) dimensions.
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...splay them by number of votes. Everyone knows that makes it impossible for a few persistent voices to dominate the discussion.'
...seem as though the opinion was coming from the general population and not a politician or company, as an advertisement would imply. And $20/hour was (a
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...y a bar graph or a scatter graph (sometimes with a line connection to show a trend, even though there is no actual value for non-integers).
...oe|Randall]] was still experimenting with character design, as Cueball has a face in the first two frames.
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...never been totally satisfied by the explanations for why e to the ix gives a sinusoidal wave.
...dentity states that e<sup>iπ</sup> + 1 = 0. Therefore, e<sup>iπ</sup> = −1.
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This is a list of comics from 1 to 500.
{{comicsrow|486|2008-10-08|I am Not a Ninja}}
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...such as particular characters or words. The command to substitute/replace a string is "s", e.g. "s/old/new/g" replaces any occurrence of "old" with "ne
:[There are two browser windows open on a computer screen.]
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...r situation from a previous xkcd strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.
Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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...llegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by Tracy Mor
...r's failure to specify between percentage and percentage ''points'' causes a little ambiguity that gets on Randall's nerves.
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...two major footnotes displayed over the course of the site's history, with a gap of 22 days without any footnotes after the removal of the original foot
...llboards] appearing in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They were a viral marketing campaign by the Ask Jeeves search engine to drive publicity
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{{w|e (number)|e}} is a {{w|mathematical constant}} roughly equal to 2.71828182846. {{w|pi|π}} is
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| titletext = This also guarantees he won't be one of the ones to get a bobcat.
...pon codes may be a single, simple word related to the product or seller or a complex sequence of characters.
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| titletext = But to us there is but one God, plus or minus one. —1 Corinthians 8:6±2.
The late {{w|Harold Camping}}, a Christian pastor, wrongly predicted that the world would end in May 21, 201
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Once again, [[Randall]] seems to be just messing around, this time with a number line.
...that is less than 0.<span style="text-decoration: overline;">99</span>. 1 − '''0.0000000372''' is 1 bit less than the {{w|IEEE_floating_point|IEEE 754
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...(among other things) a few days of abdominal cramps occurring roughly once a month for women in the {{w|Age and female fertility|reproductive age}}.
...= 1/T, with ''T'' measured in seconds (s), it follows that 1 Hz = 1 s<sup>−1</sup>.
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...try to fill orbitals individually, and only pair up when every orbital has a lone electron in it.
...omantically involved), as most people are generally uncomfortable being in a room with people engaging in intercourse.{{Citation needed}} The Aufbau pri
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| titletext = Day six: 'The hell? Who mails a bobcat?'
...ount with a $365 balance, this script will buy one random item per day for a full year. [[Megan]] comments that Cueball might just end up with "lots of
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...lower allowing it to be easily interpreted as the month and vice versa. As a {{w|public service announcement}}, this comic states that there is in fact
...y (binary, Unix time) to essentially impossible (painting the numbers onto a black cat).
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| titletext = The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/
The title text is a geology pun, as "fine-grained" is a common term used by geologists to describe rocks.
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This panel is a play on the {{w|Electromagnetic spectrum}}, showing a large piece of the spectrum and examples of phenomena that absorb or emit l
...Gal ({{w|Gallon}}) is a unit of liquid volume measurement, and Coloumb is a likely typo for {{w|Coulomb}}, the SI unit of electric charge. Photons do n
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| titletext = 'All time machine systems nominal... T-minus ten... eleven ...'
...most technologically-advanced{{Citation needed}} "{{w|useless machine}}" (a device whose only purpose is to switch itself off when it is switched on).
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...ed footnotes as footnotes on footnotes and interpreting them as exponents (minus one, modulo 6, plus 1).
This is a logic puzzle where the reader has to follow a confusing network of footnotes to determine whether the word "no" is to be
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...se much more complicated, but I can't stay to talk about it because I have a date.
...2 (50/2 + 7 = 32) would be considered creepy. As the graph shows, there is a lower limit and an upper limit.
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...custs, what appears to be {{w|Rapture|The Rapture}}, and the appearance of a demon-like creature. Upon the arrival of the creature (perhaps {{w|The Anti
...codes are tied to a geographic location, it is also often used to specify a local region for the purposes of weather reports.
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*A larger version of the picture can be found [https://xkcd.com/1256/large her
...nerally made based on popular searches by other people. From time to time, a particularly strange or hilarious one may be found, as is evidenced in this
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...to the Earth's surface, astronomy would get a LOT easier; you'd just need a magnifying glass.
...eter) of various celestial objects at the surface of the earth relative to a vertex at the center of the Earth as diagrammed in the opening panel. The o
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| titletext = All in all, I give this year a C-. There were no aurora visible from my house and that comet evaporated. T
...r the {{w|Death of Nelson Mandela|death}} of {{w|Nelson Mandela}}, to give a few examples.
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...s sub text on a given item, the text will be indented as well. If there is a title, it will be written in '''bold''' letters in the transcript.
::A chart of
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...n attempting to list a single set, each item mentioned actually belongs to a different set.
...hite and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs}}'', a task some people might find difficult, although they would not just choose
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...ogether with a hand at either end, then twisting. It doesn't work and it's a great way to hurt yourself, but you can try it!
This comic uses a similar structure and is based off of the same idea as [[1714: Volcano Type
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| titletext = Whoa, and if you overlay a Fibonacci spiral on a golden spiral it matches up almost perfectly!
*The comic is a link to [https://xkcd.com/spiral/].
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...stery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of
This comic shows a graph in which several "mysteries" are mentioned and placed on the graph ac
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...inued bills [https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/11/how-much-is-a-500-bill-worth.aspx might be worth more than their original value] but can
| Ten years later, one might for that price get a <s>small</s> [https://realmenuprices.com/starbucks-menu-prices/ tall freshl
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This comic is a reference to the six-word short story ''{{w|For sale: baby shoes, never wor
...story takes the form of a short advertisement that might have been seen in a newspaper, and makes up alternate versions that use various modern 'standar
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...accidents and incidents|goes wrong during the launch}}. ''{{w|Countdown|T-Minus}} 2 minutes'' means that there are only two minutes left before the rocket
...r would be absurd in real life,{{Citation needed}} but may be presented as a comically extreme example of [[356: Nerd Sniping|nerd sniping]].
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*Here is a collection of screen shots from the dynamic comic [[1608: Hoverboard]] repr
...hows the situation where you stand on the wall seeing the entire play area minus one coin:
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...t would be pretty unfair to give to someone a blank version of this map as a 'how many states can you name?' quiz. (If you include Alaska and Hawaii, yo
...them in the style of a jigsaw puzzle, with the end result being a map with a similar outline to the original [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com
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...wn) input that became part of the comics. This time the user input is like a game, as the user actively adds, moves and deletes items, and new items app
...is because the first time a computer loads this dynamic comic it can take a while.
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...nce he doesn't know what's in them, he writes silly things on the boxes as a joke. Some things are unusual/unlikely (e.g. sand, hydrants, peat) and some
...o a classic {{w|snipe hunt}} where a hazing victim is tasked with finding "a box of grid squares".
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| titletext = Each particle also has a password which allows its properties to be changed, but the cosmic censorsh
...ch as role-playing games (such as D&D) and sports after failing to provide a good definition of {{w|Flavour (particle physics)|flavor}}.
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...owl is the single most important American football game of the year. Over a hundred million people (across the world) watch it, many of whom are not ev
...rship of the Superbowl, advertising time is very expensive ($5 million for a 30-second national spot, as of 2019). This has led to companies putting sub
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...hat mean the hour from 12pm to 1pm, or the hour centered on 12pm? Or is it a snapshot at 12:00 exactly? Because our 24-hour forecast has midnight at bot
...uch as the definition of "scattered showers" and how it's determined, what a "chance of rain" means, and so on), each professional finally ends up with
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...ping stone to give it "a weird day in its life" (similar to [[325: A-Minus-Minus]]), and possibly confuse future geologists.
...face. Despite there being many factors attributed to successfully skipping a stone (including the attributes of the stone itself), Cueball and Megan are
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| titletext = My theory is that dark matter is actually just a thin patina of grime covering the whole universe, and we don't notice it be
...observed to not have this property, suggesting that it is a ''thing'' that a galaxy can have more or less of and is separable from. At scales of our sol
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...ve on its precision, but would also significantly change the value of what a kilogram is, making all things already measured for science and in the rest
...t was retired. This means that the mass of a kilogram is no longer tied to a physical object, but to the fundamental properties of the universe. By fixi
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...ext = Don't worry--you're less likely to die from a space launch than from a shark attack. The survival rate is pretty high for both!
This comic deals with the faulty application of general statistics based on a large population, such as all Americans, to specific situations with vastly
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...text show up in all comics. However, in certain cases, the header text of a specific comic is changed permanently, which means it won't be modified lik
...63326/https://xkcd.com/ 2024-04-06] (although it was supposed to have been a Friday release according to the xkcd archives) until the next comic to come
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...em which you purchased, but is now past its {{w|expiration date}}, you get a score which is what percent of your lifetime elapsed between when the item
...find a can of beans that expired in 2010 (9 years ago), and that gives her a score of 24.3. Megan's age is thus revealed to be 37, found by substituting
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| titletext = To detect dark matter, we just need to build a bird feeder that spins two squirrels around the rim in opposite directions
....com/input/?i=(0.3+(GeV%2Fc%5E2)%2Fcm%5E3)+*+(volume+of+earth)+in+grams]), a typical weight for several species of common squirrels.
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In this comic Randall is outlining the rules of a group chat, such as {{w|Internet Relay Chat}} (IRC), {{w|Slack (software)|S
1. '''Once you've sent a typing notification, you have to say ''something,'' c'mon.'''
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| titletext = "Off-by-one errors" isn't the easiest theme to build a party around, but I've seen worse.
...y has not happened yet that year, this calculation will predict them to be a year older than they actually are. By {{w|New Year's Eve}}, everybody's bir
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This comic is arguably the ninth comic in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemi
...c, an {{w|exabyte}} is 10<sup>18</sup> bytes, while an "exa-exabyte"—not a common word, but one that abuses the principles of {{w|metric prefix}}es—
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...ime a [[:Category:Science tip|Science Tip]]. This is the second time that a category of tips (with the first being "[[:Category:Protip|Protip]]") has b
...into falsely thinking you've shown a good result with your work than it is a tip in presenting an actual legitimate useful scientific result.
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...rself, since you'd have adjacent hairs as a guide. Growing it out would be a huge pain, though.
...hairs growing at a gross total of five feet (1.524m) per hour, humans grew a single new five-foot-long hair once per hour. The comic then delves into th
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...ul.) His goal is to make thirty baskets in a row before the universe puts a {{w|meteor}} through his hoop.
...ase a "meteor", when it hits the ground moments later it would be known as a {{w|meteorite}}. See also [[#Terminology|Terminology]] section below. See
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...ns of the comics (the mouseover text is discreetly included), and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.
...rom high-resolution original scans and include the original or, sometimes, a different title text. The book is available to [https://archive.org/details
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...f stickers which could be placed anywhere on the comic itself by a player. A list of these stickers is collected below.
A few notes:
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The {{w|James Webb Space Telescope}} (JWST) is a space telescope jointly developed by NASA, the European Space Agency, and t
...}} with fewer than 2 seconds left in the countdown, causing delays of over a month.
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...me naively assumes that this is given by the difference of the timestamps. A Cueball who is familiar panics and states that it is impossible to know, an
...m. Depending on when T1 and T2 are, changes in calendar system may also be a relevant consideration—perhaps most famously, the change from the Julian
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...ad Map Projection: South America]] ("Oops, all South Americas!"). That was a reference to the cereal [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oops-all-berries-bo
...cific, this is surprisingly not too dissimilar to an east-only fragment of a world map. Just with the reversed 'new world' lands added to the usual exte
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| titletext = It's a long way down.
...nd the spaceship whenever it collides with a gravitational body, acting as a shield. The shield remains until the player orients the spaceship upright s
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...ch, and Cueball likes her nerdy answer so much he wants to ask her out for a dinner date after work.
...cent epoch in the history of the universe. Negative values of "z" indicate a blueshift, which indicate objects that are approaching the observer, genera
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...The type of cursive used is closest to {{w|D%27Nealian|D'Nealian}} though a few of the letters appear to be in the {{w|Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script)|Z
...ither particularly cool nor very easy to read (perhaps being confusable as a form of 'n', or even 'M', at least until actual cursive versions of those a
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...I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.
...s another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category: Tips|Tips]], this time a Spacetime health tip.
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| titletext = Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron
...nes, typically by emitting particles or radiation. The process of decay is a natural phenomenon that occurs in radioactive substances. There are several
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| titletext = Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Eu
...n addition, it's usually preferable that questions are clearly worded with a single, objective answer, so as to avoid disputes about which answers are c
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...antimeridian (180°)}} that represents where adjoining territories observe a full calendar day of difference (give or take the 'normal' time of day adju
...t the special need to effectively adjust your watch by a full day (plus or minus any other time to be adjusted).
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...toonist Day, which is on May 5th (same day as Mexico's Cinco de Mayo). As a cartoonist himself, this may be Randall's way of celebrating it.
...QA engineers it likely has a lot of weird/invalid values that could cause a crash.
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