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One Very Prominent White Stripe

April 28, 2021Original blog post

A white horse (with a black mane and tail) insists it's really a black horse with one very prominent white stripe. Same picture, different description, the zebra question taken to its logical extreme.

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"Hello there, white horse!" Horse: "Common misconception. I'm actually a black horse with one very prominent white stripe."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021-04-28-one-very-prominent-white-stripe/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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