The Spurious Solution
A detective's trap catches a fugitive and an innocent bystander: the genuine solution and an extraneous one.
Transcript
"Your cleverly laid trap captured this known fugitive. Also, this bewildered child." Detective: "Take the genuine solution into custody, and give my apologies to the spurious one."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-the-spurious-solution/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)