Pay by the Word
A mathematician writes out a geometric series term by term for many lines, as if paid by the word.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-04-18-pay-by-the-word/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Title] "WHY WE DON'T PAY MATHEMATICIANS BY THE WORD"
"Consider the geometric series 1/p + 1/p² + 1/p³ + 1/p⁴ + ... + 1/p³³ + ..."