Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 16, 2012
May 15, 2012
May 17, 2012
Transcript:
Girl: If you hold butter under your chin and it reflects the yellow, does it mean you like dandelions? Frazz: Other way around. Girl: According to the commutative property, it should work both ways. Frazz: That's a numerical property. Girl: SO much for math explaining everything. Caulfield: Or everything explaining math.
Oy, that old canard again.
The commutative property isn’t even universal in math; just try to say that 5 – 2 is the same as 2 – 5 and see how far you get.