Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Palm Reader

2021

A palm reader cares only whether the triangle formed by palm lines reveals the hand's curvature.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-01-01-palm-reader/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Palm reader: "Wow! Your heart line, fate line, and life line form a triangle!" Client: "What does that mean?" Palm reader: "It means their angular defect will tell us whether your hand is Euclidean!"

[Caption] "The hardest thing about being a palm reader, I find, is nobody wants to hear the truth."

Topics
Geometry › Non-Euclidean GeometryGeometry › Triangles › Angle SumGeometry › Curvature
Level
High SchoolCollege
Themes
Everyday LifeLiterature & Myth