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Speed Limit c

September 15, 2017

A pulled-over driver answers the speed-limit question with the speed of light, a technically correct upper bound.

Content note: Police traffic stop (comic).

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-09-15-speed-limit-c/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Officer: "Do you know the speed limit here?"

Driver: "Theoretically, c."

Officer: "I meant the legal limit, not the physical one."

Driver: "It still works as an upper bound, though it's probably not strict."

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