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Calm Down or Carry Out Your Multiplication

2021

An excited student announces an answer of '3!', and a skeptic can't tell whether it's enthusiasm or a factorial (6).

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-calm-down-or-carry-out-your-multiplication/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Board: "x = 3!" B: "You need to either calm down or carry out your multiplication. Only you know which one."

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