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Talk:347: Brick Archway

2024-06-27T17:41:34Z

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.........[[User:Dontknow|Dontknow]] ([[User talk:Dontknow|talk]]) 20:22, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Type "Atari Breakout" in Google image search. (I'm pretty sure it only works on pc.) [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 12:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
:The search results won't make it self-evident that you're talking about [https://elgoog.im/breakout/ this] —[[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 04:54, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
:It also works on laptops. [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 14:19, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

:NOTE, it no longer works. [[User:TheOddCell|TheOddCell]] ([[User talk:TheOddCell|talk]]) 02:23, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

'''That's... [ 1 week of silence later ] ...disturbing...''' don't delete bold text. -ANON E. MUS creator of comicomedy, xplainxkcd

Talk:1784: Bad Map Projection: Liquid Resize

2024-06-27T16:54:01Z

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I'm not too experienced with PhotoShop, but I think that the tool is a selective delete that he used on water bodies, so removing most of the water while maintaining relative shapes and sizes?
:Mostly just from the fact that India looks desiccated.
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.197|162.158.166.197]] 05:06, 11 January 2017 (UTC)Girish
::Australia is pretty mutilated, so I think the tool was used on land too [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.111|162.158.178.111]] 05:55, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Where are Laos and Cambodia missing? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.11|108.162.246.11]] 06:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
:It seems that Laos and Burma have been merged into one big county, as well as Cambodia and Thailand. Maybe they are just unnecessary details according to this map projection. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.22|162.158.238.22]] 16:39, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

The tool removes spaces of uniform color automagically. If you have big countries like India or Australia, they get caught by the algorithm as well. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.69.9|162.158.69.9]] 06:16, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Can anybody figure out the projection before the application of the tool? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.232|108.162.219.232]] 06:58, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
:I think it is a Mercator projection that got mutilated. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.239|141.101.104.239]] 07:50, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
::I agree, it looks like a Mercator that Freddy Kruger got at.
Girish, [[Special:Contributions/162.158.166.197|162.158.166.197]] 09:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
:::I think if it was a Mercator, the bottom of Antarctica would be flat. To me, it looks like Winkel Tripel, with the odd angles in Alaska and the Russian Far East. [[User:Schroduck|Schroduck]] ([[User talk:Schroduck|talk]]) 15:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

I feel like there is some part of sarcasm in "unused blank spaces", as if it was Randall saying "You're right, why would anyone care about the oceans? There, I have removed them, problem solved.". Can anyone tie this to a recent event? Or maybe the joke is about improperly handling data, where you use a tool just because it's known to work well and for the sake of processing data, even if using in a given context doesn't make much sense. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.213|141.101.69.213]] 10:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
:I'm not sure about recent events, but "removing oceans" features prominently in one of Randall's [https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/ What If?] articles. {{unsigned ip|108.162.241.130}}

This map proves, once again, that it's good to be an archipelago. Philippines, FTW! [[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.58|172.68.54.58]] 13:59, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
:Hold your patriotic horses there, where did Palawan go? --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.138.10|162.158.138.10]] 12:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Comics like these make me wonder how Randall preserves the XKCD visual style when working with content that is clearly not hand-drawn. [[User talk:AgentMuffin|~AgentMuffin]]

"This is a play on the common advice to young children to refrain from "running with scissors" to avoid physical accidents." <-- Does anyone else thing this is a bit of a stretch? {{unsigned ip|108.162.245.130}}
:Yes, I do :) [[User:Luckykaa|Luckykaa]] ([[User talk:Luckykaa|talk]]) 15:46, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
: absolutely. Running just refers to the algorithm. It's not meta in any way.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.58.45|162.158.58.45]] 16:29, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

This map centres on Africa, which has survived the distortion relatively unscathed. Might this be a dig at other projections that exaggerate the relative size of Africa? For example, Gall-Peters is called out in {{xkcd|977}} with a simple "I hate you".
--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.130|108.162.241.130]] 15:47, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
:Maybe but I think it is because all landmasses are more or less centered around Africa. By putting this center there is not need to show any of the Earths half-sphere with the paccific Ocean, which would anyway disappear completely. I think it would be more difficult for people to relate to a map that shows USA up Against China, than US up against Europe. And that may be an important factor when making such a comic. People need to know what they see and what has happened to appreciate the comic. But I'm sure he appreciated that it keeps Greenland and Australia much smaller then Africa, which is not the case for the mercator projection. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

It seems to me that this comic is inspired by {{xkcd|1685}}, once again making humorous reference to using a Photoshop tool to accomplish an unrelated task. {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.130}}
:Agree. Will add [[1685: Patch]] to the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:46, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Can someone please explain the relevance of "political" in the title? Because I understood the resizing of the map to be related to unused blank political space, so that areas with little or no political "content" were cut away, which seems to run counter to what everyone else thinks. But then again, I know absolutely nothing about actual map resizing.
:"Political" is a type of map which focuses on showing locations of countries, usually by painting neighbouring ones in different colors.[[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.41|172.68.11.41]] 09:33, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

This page reads more like a review than an explanation. ★☆☆☆☆ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.227|108.162.212.227]] 10:16, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Could someone add Tissot's Indicatives (correct spelling) onto the map as the title text shows? could someone do a reverse liquid resize to put it back to what it was before? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.63.203|172.69.63.203]] 16:40, 11 June 2020 (UTC)Bumpf

"Bad content aware scaling is already a meme." -- Well, this is about bad continent-aware scaling! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.90|162.158.155.90]] 13:21, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

This reminds me of maps for underground train networks, which greatly distort distances but preserve relationships between stops on different rail lines.
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Talk:1165: Amazon

2024-06-27T16:48:28Z

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I believe it is not about {{w|Amazon Forest}}, but about {{w|Amazon River}}. {{unsigned|‎194.85.224.35}}
:That'd be a ridiculous amount of rain! [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.53|173.245.54.53]] 06:42, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

;Skeletonize a cow

Isn't there an urban myth that pirahnas can skeletonize a cow in under 2 minutes? [[Special:Contributions/81.138.95.57|81.138.95.57]] 10:32, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

:According to [http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/piranha-eat-cows1.htm], it's not myth - you only need few nets and few hundreds of piranhas. It was not mentioned how far they needed to go to get that number of piranhas, but I would suppose setting up that kind of practical joke can't take more that few days. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 11:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

:If the cow were a calf, why not? But a grown cow, I don't think a few hundred piranhas can fit and reach the whole cow within 2 minutes. [[User:Lysdexia|Lysdexia]] ([[User talk:Lysdexia|talk]]) 02:19, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Does Amazon sell beef by any chance? I mean: while amazon.com can probably ship a package from Iquitos to Manaus, the Amazon can only nearly, because Manaus is situated a few kilometers upstream of a river branch where the package from Iquitos would float by. Makes me think whether there is a similiar comparison with skeltonized cows. Hence beef. [[Special:Contributions/46.142.28.57|46.142.28.57]] 15:25, 25 January 2013 (UTC) madd

:There was a TV programme of the Michael Palin type that took a boat trip up or down the Amazon. One of the fish mentioned in the river could strip the meat off a cow in seconds. It was a deep water dweller, not the common piranha and "IIGC" a bottom feeder so its normal cuisine was "probably" already done to falling off the bone. I saw this programme once long long ago.

If the package was being delivered by dugout on the river its speed could well exceed the 4 to 6 or more knots likely experienced in mid channel. (I seem to recall figures in the region of 8 to 12 knots.)

"lost it at 'Minutes to skeletonize a cow'." sounds like food for thought being off-putting. The stripping would not have been done by an Amazon courier as slaughtering a cow takes a lot longer by human than the minutes suggested here. The time that it would have had to lose would be considerably more than minutes considering the likely gain that a canoe piloted at mid channel as constantly as possible would make Amazon.com a lot faster even if the canoe was just drifting and not under power.

A package drifting in the Amazon would quickly get entangled in the growth along the banks and might even, on occasion, drift up-stream[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 17:48, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

;Reason for comparison

I think the main reason for this comparison is the dispute over the .amazon TLD between Amazon.com on one side and Brazil and Peru on the other. --[[Special:Contributions/176.101.146.145|176.101.146.145]] 11:38, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I assume you mean this article (or alike): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242994/Brazil-Peru-web-giant-Amazon-battle-amazon-domain-name.html
[[Special:Contributions/78.52.195.25|78.52.195.25]] 09:40, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

:Indeed, they are comparing who is “more worth” the domain name and this comic shows how to compare them --[[Special:Contributions/176.101.146.145|176.101.146.145]] 19:12, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Just want to say that I always thought it was a mistake to add to the (generally) three-character traditional non-geographic TLDs that they used to have. This despite buying myself a .info when that first came out, mostly as a novelty similar to the acre of Moon. (But .aero? .museum? Really?) Still, can't begrudge them the drift to non-Western characters (just wish it'd been ''direct'' non-Western equivalents to .com, .org, .mil, .gov, etc... Anyway, what's wrong with just letting each national TLD logically and self-consistently expand upon their own existing standards (.co.uk, .com.au, etc) in a manner the locals would understand, and let significant metanational organisations (UN) do the same for their own subset of responsibilities in their own pseudo-national TLD. (You see, I over-think these things.) [[Special:Contributions/178.105.155.170|178.105.155.170]] 16:20, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
:I was a'waiting the question mark but found none. Thus you said your own predicate is wrong. [[User:Lysdexia|Lysdexia]] ([[User talk:Lysdexia|talk]]) 02:19, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

;Is anyone else thinking what I am?

Its been a while since Munroe has given something seriously good/thoughtful.... I am getting the inner feeling that he is planning something big. Like '''''BIG '''''. Anyone here concurs with me? [[Special:Contributions/117.194.86.32|117.194.86.32]] 14:18, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

I will second that. It has been a while since he has had any labour intentive jokes. [[Special:Contributions/72.38.90.50|72.38.90.50]] 16:57, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

;Rounds 1-13

Am I the only one who wants to know what the other 11 criteria might be? [[Special:Contributions/71.201.53.130|71.201.53.130]] 19:10, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

No. But we know 3 of them, right? So we just need 10 more. [[Special:Contributions/117.194.83.200|117.194.83.200]] 18:52, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

We need 11 more. This is criterion 14, and we know 3 of them including this one. [[Special:Contributions/71.201.53.130|71.201.53.130]] 22:46, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

;Confused
"Of course, it would take slightly longer for Amazon.com to skeletonize a cow because the death ray takes time to heat up."
I don't like being more confused after reading the explain than before. What death ray? [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 14:54, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
:I thought it was just a joke that doesn't really have any deeper meaning? Hmm... Now I'm curious too ._. [[User:SuperSupermario24|Just some random derp]] 21:28, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

:I am pretty sure it's just a joke. But who writes these explanations? (Now that I posted this, will you amazon people let me go?) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.49|141.101.104.49]] 22:23, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Edit comment ''(→‎Explanation: The SI symbol for litres is a capital L, I corrected this from a lowercase l.)'' ...actually, in case that editor is reading (an IP, like me), it's either "L" or "l". And I'd handwrite a loopy-l, which also is acceptable. But at least we both agree on the spelling. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.229|172.70.162.229]] 19:21, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:467: X Girls Y Cups

2024-06-27T16:43:28Z

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This page is in the category Sex. I don't see anything about that topic here. Can someone explain? [[User:Matchups|Matchups]] ([[User talk:Matchups|talk]]) 14:49, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
:If you don't see the connection between this and sex, you are one of the fortunate ones. Do not google it. There's not enough brain bleach in a swimming pool.
:As mentioned here and in the Wikipedia article, 2 Girls 1 Cup is a trailer for a {{w|scat fetish|scat-fetish}} film, and it is at least intended to cause sexual arousal "if you like that sort of thing". Of course, not many people do. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 16:40, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

There are now 38 million google hits for 5 girls 6 cups. Someone should update the graphic. {{unsigned ip|199.27.128.141}}

IIRC unsigned short is *at least* 16 bits [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.120|108.162.215.120]] 04:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

I know it's utterly trivial, but I have to say it, so here goes: This is an English language wiki. No matter what your accent, it's thousands commas and decimal points, not the other way around. Thank you. Anonymous 20:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
:PS: how did the white-on-black system used by many, if not most, if not all, non-English speakers come about? It just doesn't make intuitive sense to me. {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.121}}
:Well, here goes my response: Pretty much only the U.S. and U.K. uses commas. It’s an America/UK thing, not an English thing. Technically, it’s an imperial thing, and 0,5 would be metric, but semantics. [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 14:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
:But Australia (and I'm assuming NZ) is a fully metric country that uses dots for decimals. I cannot think of an English-speaking country that uses commas, that's pretty much a European thing. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.135.92|172.69.135.92]] 03:34, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
:: Here in South Africa we use the decimal comma. [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 10:12, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Did anyone else see the title and hope "Y cups" would turn out to be a bra size? [[User:Promethean|Promethean]] ([[User talk:Promethean|talk]]) 14:16, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

x is left-right and y up-down. just saying. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.184|141.101.98.184]] 13:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Amusing side note: as of today, "7 girls 7 cups" has 7 results. :-) {{unsigned ip|172.71.151.40|19:51, 30 November 2022}}

As of now, 5 girls 6 cups has 100 million more results than 2 girls 1 cup. Got dang. [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]][[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]] 07:57, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
: Should probably also mention that 1 girl 1 cup has 1.2 billion results and also says that safe search is off (2 girls 1 cup doesn't). [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]][[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]] 07:57, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Talk:726: Seat Selection

2024-06-27T16:35:13Z

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Can someone please fix the date of the comic??? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.27.84|172.68.27.84]] 14:17, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Could the part about the wing also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]? -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/99.129.248.32|99.129.248.32]] 12:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
:For sure it has nothing to do with this. There is nothing about gremlins here! Deleted from explanation --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Randall should add a bonus if you click on the wing in the image. 03:44, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Pilot: You've killed the rest of the crew! Plot twist: Megan's flying American, on a plane inherited from TWA. Here, it's pilot/co-pilot/flight engineer/navigator. This was back when airlines held off on fleet upgrades to cut costs. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.8|108.162.221.8]] 04:22, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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== Wrong date on comic header ==

It reads April 21, 2010, but this comic wasn't posted on that date.
[[Special:Contributions/198.41.230.226|198.41.230.226]] 17:15, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Talk:2689: Fermat's First Theorem

2024-06-25T16:23:02Z

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but it ''does'' spell ant bacon [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 18:35, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Possible reference to Fermat's Last Theorem. {{unsigned ip|172.70.206.151|18:43, 24 October 2022 (UTC)}}
:Make that ''certain'' reference to Fermat's Last Theorem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.179.30|172.70.179.30]] 18:57, 24 October 2022

[[2492:_Commonly_Mispronounced_Equations]]? [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 19:45, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
:Yes, added it. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]]) 21:46, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
::Thanks [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 14:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Is it worth pointing out that Fermat's Last Theorum was not the last one he postulated, but the last one that remained unproven? Or do we leave all that to the Wikipedia link for anyone curious? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.59|172.71.26.59]] 20:50, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
:I say leave it to Wikipedia, since it doesn't seem to help with explaining any part of the comic.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.94.179|172.71.94.179]] 06:49, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
: It may also be considered "last" in the sense that it was published posthumously, having previously been just a handwritten note in the margin of another text. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 12:11, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Little Fermat's Theorem, as opposed to Fermat's Little Theorem. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.219|162.158.2.219]] 20:58, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Fermat was French (not American). Not sure, what the French call the equals sign. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.215|198.41.242.215]] 07:07, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
:They call it ''égale'', so it does start with an (accented) E.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 08:48, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
:Randall's Fermat seems to speak English, since "ant" and "bacon" are English. And "BNECN" is not Fermat's interpretation, but discovered centuries later, perhaps by Wyles, who is American. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 14:05, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
::Sir Andrew Wiles is British. (He was living in the U.S. when he published his proof of Fermat's last theorem, though.) --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.22.191|172.71.22.191]] 18:04, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

In Semitic languages we omit vowels when writing words, so "An+BnCn" could be read as "Ant Bancon", which is close enough. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 16:59, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Reminds me of this bit about how Einstein came up with the formula for relativity: https://youtu.be/rsyJX3sESjs. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 12:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

I think that, given the detail we've already gone into about how to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, it's reasonable to include a bit of the history. Namely, that it was the last theorem left with neither proof nor counterexample.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.166.217|172.71.166.217]] 04:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

How big were those ants? Jesus. [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 16:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

technically it spells ANT BN=CN which can be translated to ANT BACON if you add a few extra lines.-xplainxkcd. subscribe to @algo-channel on youtube. link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo0bVrm7Wfi_Ab60MMY9bCQ ----

bnecn = bacon. at least where i come from. sometimes bacon is labeled "fresh bacen" or "fresh bcon" it's close enough. -xpainxkcd. subscribe to @algo-channel on youtube. link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo0bVrm7Wfi_Ab60MMY9bCQ

Talk:2689: Fermat's First Theorem

2024-06-25T16:19:40Z

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but it ''does'' spell ant bacon [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 18:35, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Possible reference to Fermat's Last Theorem. {{unsigned ip|172.70.206.151|18:43, 24 October 2022 (UTC)}}
:Make that ''certain'' reference to Fermat's Last Theorem. --[[Special:Contributions/172.70.179.30|172.70.179.30]] 18:57, 24 October 2022

[[2492:_Commonly_Mispronounced_Equations]]? [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 19:45, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
:Yes, added it. —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]]) 21:46, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
::Thanks [[User:JLZ0kTC5|JLZ0kTC5]] ([[User talk:JLZ0kTC5|talk]]) 14:28, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Is it worth pointing out that Fermat's Last Theorum was not the last one he postulated, but the last one that remained unproven? Or do we leave all that to the Wikipedia link for anyone curious? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.59|172.71.26.59]] 20:50, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
:I say leave it to Wikipedia, since it doesn't seem to help with explaining any part of the comic.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.94.179|172.71.94.179]] 06:49, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
: It may also be considered "last" in the sense that it was published posthumously, having previously been just a handwritten note in the margin of another text. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 12:11, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Little Fermat's Theorem, as opposed to Fermat's Little Theorem. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.219|162.158.2.219]] 20:58, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Fermat was French (not American). Not sure, what the French call the equals sign. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/198.41.242.215|198.41.242.215]] 07:07, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
:They call it ''égale'', so it does start with an (accented) E.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.77|172.70.162.77]] 08:48, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
:Randall's Fermat seems to speak English, since "ant" and "bacon" are English. And "BNECN" is not Fermat's interpretation, but discovered centuries later, perhaps by Wyles, who is American. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 14:05, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
::Sir Andrew Wiles is British. (He was living in the U.S. when he published his proof of Fermat's last theorem, though.) --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.22.191|172.71.22.191]] 18:04, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

In Semitic languages we omit vowels when writing words, so "An+BnCn" could be read as "Ant Bancon", which is close enough. [[User:Ralfoide|Ralfoide]] ([[User talk:Ralfoide|talk]]) 16:59, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Reminds me of this bit about how Einstein came up with the formula for relativity: https://youtu.be/rsyJX3sESjs. [[User:Shamino|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino|talk]]) 12:21, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

I think that, given the detail we've already gone into about how to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, it's reasonable to include a bit of the history. Namely, that it was the last theorem left with neither proof nor counterexample.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.166.217|172.71.166.217]] 04:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

How big were those ants? Jesus. [[User:Psychoticpotato|Psychoticpotato]] ([[User talk:Psychoticpotato|talk]]) 16:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

technically it spells ANT BN=CN which can be translated to ANT BACON if you add a few extra lines.-xplainxkcd. subscribe to @algo-channel on youtube. ----

bnecn = bacon. at least where i come from. sometimes bacon is labeled "fresh bacen" or "fresh bcon" it's close enough. -xpainxkcd. subscribe to @algo-channel on youtube.

Talk:2689: Fermat's First Theorem

2024-06-25T16:15:17Z

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