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172.71.26.42: Undo revision 358862 by 172.71.118.187 (talk) Page link did not justify this. Checked wiktionary, and had to go down to French (of non-US spelling "licence") to find such a reference.

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Undo revision 358862 by 172.71.118.187 (talk) Page link did not justify this. Checked wiktionary, and had to go down to French (of non-US spelling "licence") to find such a reference.

172.71.118.187: /* Explanation */ "License" is also a former name of some uni degrees

2024-12-08T15:14:14Z

‎Explanation: "License" is also a former name of some uni degrees

42.book.addict at 17:10, 1 November 2024

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42.book.addict at 17:51, 27 February 2024

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Sollyucko: /* Math */ mention perfect numbers

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‎Math: mention perfect numbers

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 Cueball is challenged on this setup by his superiors, specifically the Cueball-like guy sitting at the end of the table, who look straight through his first line-up for the joke, and ask him directly if this is just a build-up for this joke. Cueball tries at first to look like he has no idea what he's talking about, then lowers his head, in shame, and finally tries to state that ''it might not be'' such a setup. But it is too late now.
-Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license,{{Citation needed}} but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text. An added pun may be that "license" used to be the [https://www.oed.com/dictionary/licence_n name of some university degrees].
+Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license,{{Citation needed}} but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text.
 It is a [[:Category:Banned from conferences|recurring theme]] in earlier xkcd comics that Cueball (or [[Randall]]) ends up being banned from holding presentations at conferences after a presentation turns out to be just an elaborate pun.

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 Cueball is challenged on this setup by his superiors, specifically the Cueball-like guy sitting at the end of the table, who look straight through his first line-up for the joke, and ask him directly if this is just a build-up for this joke. Cueball tries at first to look like he has no idea what he's talking about, then lowers his head, in shame, and finally tries to state that ''it might not be'' such a setup. But it is too late now.
-Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license,{{Citation needed}} but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text.
+Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license,{{Citation needed}} but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text. An added pun may be that "license" used to be the [https://www.oed.com/dictionary/licence_n name of some university degrees].
 It is a [[:Category:Banned from conferences|recurring theme]] in earlier xkcd comics that Cueball (or [[Randall]]) ends up being banned from holding presentations at conferences after a presentation turns out to be just an elaborate pun.

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 Cueball is challenged on this setup by his superiors, specifically the Cueball-like guy sitting at the end of the table, who look straight through his first line-up for the joke, and ask him directly if this is just a build-up for this joke. Cueball tries at first to look like he has no idea what he's talking about, then lowers his head, in shame, and finally tries to state that ''it might not be'' such a setup. But it is too late now.
-Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license{{Citation needed}}, but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text.
+Such a pun is both so obvious and so terrible that Cueball's superiors deem that he should no longer have a {{w|Licence to kill (concept)|license to ''math''}}, and they thus revoke Cueball's "math license." Of course you do not need a math license,{{Citation needed}} but that is part of the comic's concept along the lines mentioned here below and further elaborated in the title text.
 It is a [[:Category:Banned from conferences|recurring theme]] in earlier xkcd comics that Cueball (or [[Randall]]) ends up being banned from holding presentations at conferences after a presentation turns out to be just an elaborate pun.

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 :Once you have the characteristic ratio for any integer n, any other integers that share the same characteristic are called friendly with each other. (This is what is written in the frame in Cueball's slide, spelling friendly numbers as ''friendly #s''). So to put it simply, a friendly number is any integer that shares its characteristic ratio with at least one other integer. The converse of that is called a solitary number, where it doesn't share its characteristic with anyone else.
-:1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are solitary. 6 is friendly with 28; σ(6)/6 = (1+2+3+6)/6 = 12/6 = 2 = 56/28 = (1+2+4+7+14+28)/28 = σ(28)/28.
+:1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are solitary. 6 is friendly with 28; σ(6)/6 = (1+2+3+6)/6 = 12/6 = 2 = 56/28 = (1+2+4+7+14+28)/28 = σ(28)/28; this is due to both of them being {{w|perfect numbers}}.
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