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Captain Math Does Taxes

September 11, 2019Original blog post

The Adventures of Captain Math: asked to do someone's taxes, Captain Math explains that accountants are the ones good with numbers. Mathematicians, not so much.

Transcript

[1] "Help me, Captain Math! My taxes are due tomorrow!" "Sounds like you need not a mathematician, but an accountant."

[2] "What's the difference?" "An accountant understands personal finance and is good with numbers." "And you?" "Not so much."

[3] "So… why, exactly, do you exist?" "Ooh! Sounds like a question for my friend Captain Philosophy!"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-09-11-captain-math-does-taxes/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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