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Math Haiku: Inverses

September 2, 2015

A haiku defining 'inverses', with a small illustration.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015-09-02-math-haiku--math-haiku-inverses/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Inverses: "foes that cancel out / leaving empty battlefields / wherever they meet" [gravestones for 5 and −5]

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