Math Genre: Horror
An equation retold as a horror story.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025-05-27-math-genres--math-genre-horror/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Horror: (a + b)² = a² + b² [a mangled square, a broken Pascal's triangle, a bent hypotenuse; "9 = 5"] "She gazed numbly upon the carnage of symbols and forms. The mutilated square; the rubble of Pascal's triangle; the bent and lifeless hypotenuse…"