Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 31, 2012

Now I’m getting dizzy. Good night.

Because we have two eyes? One on top of the other?

cuz he can!

I believe, Richard, that π = pi is also a transcendental number, which makes it even more difficult to use in math, rather than in the real world of science and engineering where all measurements are approximations, no matter how exact.

Which puts to rest the false notion of the so-called-but-false formula for the area of a circle: A = πR^2 or, in English, Pi R Square. It’s wrong. Obviously. The disproof: By inspection everybody knows that Pi R Round. Hence, Pi R Square is WRONG. In the illustration above the triangular or wedge-shaped piece of Pi is not wrong, because it is only a SUBSET of the round Pi. So, to avoid superstition, never bake nor ever eat a Pi baked in a Rectangular tin, which is geometric nonsense. (It’s also bad luck, because it means you would die shortly thereafter.)

“Mathematical puns R the first sine of madness.”—Johann Von Haupkoph

The BIG SQeeZE.

@Richard S. RussellSorry, but isn’t Pi defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius?

I’ll say it again, I love when this strip is about comics!

I thought Pi was 22/7.

As we say on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay,

“M R Ducks? Yep, M R Ducks!”

Square cornbread?!? Heavens! What a concept. If it hasn’t been baked in a round, iron skillet, it’s not real cornbread. Call it johnny cake or somesuch if you like, but it’s just an imposter. (But in the spirit of P.C., I will admit that that’s how I was raised.) Anybody else agree?

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@ Richard S. Russell,Just a secant – wiwo was on the right track and wcorvi got it right, π is that ratio. Yes it’s irrational but it’s also a ratio. Ratio first, irrational second.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go take the square root of some negative numbers.

Pie are round, brownies are square, and I bake my cornbread in a cast iron pan in the shape of Texas. BTW, I learned at Texas Tech that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle and the diameter AND 22/7. Fun in analytical geometry, yea buddy!

Are the lines bended or straight?

I feel so sorry for poor e, ignored because it’s not as punnable as pi (and probably also because slide rules are pretty well obsolete).

I like chicken pot pie.

I always heard, “pi are round, cake are square…”

Is it appropriate that Key LIme is the Florida pie we’ll end up with today, regardless the “vote”??

“It all depends on how potent your Pot is…” I dunno, masterskrain, how many different kinds of chicken pot are there?

Pi is not 22/7, that’s just an approximation.

“… Do you study semiotics by chance?” No, full otics only. I never study semi- anything. I like full-vast ideas, not half-vast.

Trudeau must be reloading with some more slam material after todays primary. With all these far out comic visuals, and now that football season is effectively over, I started thinking about baseball and that incredible game Dock Ellis pitched in June of ‘70 for the Pirates. That was when Ellis lost control of his intentions and pitched a No Hitter while accidentally tripping his balls off (pun intended) on acid in the game known as the “LSD No No”. To be fair, the Padres never knew what they were facing, and it was misty. The best part of this achievement is that it’s, all true.

The beneficial effects of LSD has been studied and known for a long time, but still the Know Nothings seem to have the final say.

3.14……/1

Pi, yesterday you had a great ride. Thanks for the chuckles.