Viral Math News: Defrauding the Public
A scandal headline: x⁴ + 5x² + 4 promised solutions, but they're all imaginary.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-12-07-viral-math-news-defrauding-the-public/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Grinning figure beside 0 = x⁴ + 5x² + 4] "Defrauding the public? This polynomial promised it had solutions, but they're all imaginary" [angry reactions: 6,794]