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Have You No Decency, Madam

September 11, 2019Original blog post

The Adventures of Captain Math: a mob accuses a woman of mathematical crimes. Non-lowest common denominators and common logs are forgivable; typesetting math in Microsoft Word is not.

Transcript

[1] "Captain Math! You've got to stop this madwoman!" "Why? She looks harmless."

[2] "She finds common denominators without worrying whether they're the lowest!" "Hmm…" "She prefers common logarithms to natural logarithms!" "HMMmmm…"

[3] "She chooses to typeset math in Microsoft Word!" Captain Math: "HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, MADAM"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-09-11-have-you-no-decency-madam/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Number & Arithmetic › FractionsFunctions › LogarithmsMath Culture
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