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Except with Logarithms

October 8, 2019From the book Change Is the Only Constant

A math teacher describes the job so grandly that partygoers guess film producer or romance novelist. Close, except with logarithms.

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[At a party] "For a career? Well, it's my job to stoke people's imaginations and shepherd their thoughts toward completeness." "Film producer?" "Romance novelist?" "Psychotherapist?" "Sort of… except with logarithms!" "Yeah, that's not my kind of romance novel."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-10-08-except-with-logarithms/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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