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Megan: lightning category

2026-04-15T03:40:35Z

lightning category

172.68.243.20: /* Second step */ fix the formatting

2024-09-16T11:17:34Z

‎Second step: fix the formatting

172.71.182.49: /* Situations */ Nested numbers had no relation to comic. Make non-comic statements bulleted (and italics). Made actual sub-lists upper then lower alpha to reflect depicted thought-list.

2023-11-08T21:07:16Z

‎Situations: Nested numbers had no relation to comic. Make non-comic statements bulleted (and italics). Made actual sub-lists upper then lower alpha to reflect depicted thought-list.

TenGolf MathHacker: /* First step */

2023-11-08T20:22:46Z

‎First step

172.70.130.248 at 00:19, 6 September 2023

2023-09-06T00:19:12Z

162.158.79.197 at 20:40, 30 August 2023

2023-08-30T20:40:46Z

172.71.242.10: Undo revision 317779 by Most vandal (talk)

2023-07-13T08:07:39Z

Undo revision 317779 by Most vandal (talk)

Most vandal at 07:49, 13 July 2023

2023-07-13T07:49:10Z

JLZ0kTC5 at 15:18, 23 October 2022

2022-10-23T15:18:27Z

Mushrooms: /* Situations */

2022-09-13T07:55:00Z

‎Situations

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 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 [[Category:Romance]]
 [[Category:Romance]]

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 *''This could happen, especially if he is clumsy when holding the chair for her...''</li>
    <li>Tracheal bowling (?)
-*''This situation is cut off very much. The above is just a good guess.''</li></ol>
+*''This situation is cut off very much. The above is just a good guess.''</li></ol></ol>
 ===Third step===

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 ==Situations==
-Hairy begins to think of several situations to prepares for.
+Hairy begins to think of several situations to prepares for, as expanded below (''with non-comic explanations inserted'')
 ===First step===
 In the first panel there are four situations:
-#Medical emergency
+<ol>
-##This is the situation he continues with in the second step.
+ <li>Medical emergency
-#Dancing
+*''This is the situation he continues with in the second step.''</li>
-##He probably doesn't think he is good enough at dancing, or simply doesn’t like it.
+ <li>Dancing
-##It could also be because he is uncertain what she expects, of if she wishes to dance with him at all.
+*''He probably doesn't think he is good enough at dancing, or simply doesn’t like it.''
-#Food too expensive
+*''It could also be because he is uncertain what she expects, of if she wishes to dance with him at all.''</li>
-##It probably means that he is expected to pay (at least for himself, but probably also for his date)
+ <li>Food too expensive
-##This is a simple problem, if he does his search first. He just has to choose a restaurant he can afford.
+*''It probably means that he is expected to pay (at least for himself, but probably also for his date)''
-#Bee eating contest (?)
+*''This is a simple problem, if he does his search first. He just has to choose a restaurant he can afford.''</li>
-##This situation is cut off, so it is hard to be certain what it says.
+ <li>Bee eating contest (?)
-##The above is the best guess so far, though “Bee dating contest” is a reasonable second.
+*''This situation is cut off, so it is hard to be certain what it says.'
-##It could be a joke on {{w|Spelling bee}} contests and "normal" {{w|Competitive eating|eating contest}}.
+*''The above is the best guess so far, though “Bee dating contest” is a reasonable second.''
 ===Second step===
 In the second panel there are also four situations continuing the first option from the first panel:
-#Medical emergency
+<ol>
-##Snakebite
+ <li>Medical emergency<ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha">
-###This is the situation he continues with in the third step.
+  <li>Snakebite
-##{{w|Lightning strike}}
+*''This is the situation he continues with in the third step.''</li>
-###Very unlikely event to happen on any given date.
+  <li>{{w|Lightning strike}}
-##Fall from chair
+*''Very unlikely event to happen on any given date.''</li>
-###This could happen, especially if he is clumsy when holding the chair for her...
+  <li>Fall from chair
-##Tracheal bowling (?)
+*''This could happen, especially if he is clumsy when holding the chair for her...''</li>
-###This situation is cut off very much. The above is just a good guess.
+  <li>Tracheal bowling (?)
 ===Third step===
-In the third panel there are four types of snakes with questions marks as to whether they are dangerous. This is a continuation of the first option from the second panel:
+In the third panel there are four types of snakes with questions marks as to whether they are dangerous. This is a further continuation of the first option from the second panel:
-#Medical emergency
+<ol>
-##Snakebite
+ <li>Medical emergency<ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha">
-###Corn snake
+  <li>Snakebite<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha">
-###Garter snake
+   <li>Corn snake</li>
-###Copperhead
+   <li>Garter snake</li>
-###Coral snake (?)
+   <li>Copperhead</li>
-####This situation is cut off very much. The above is just a good guess.
+   <li>Coral snake (?)
 This third step takes him to his computer in the fourth panel where he does lots of research on [[#Snake venom|snake venom]].

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 #Bee eating contest (?)
 ##This situation is cut off, so it is hard to be certain what it says.
-##The above is the best guess so far.
+##The above is the best guess so far, though “Bee dating contest” is a reasonable second.
 ##It could be a joke on {{w|Spelling bee}} contests and "normal" {{w|Competitive eating|eating contest}}.

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 By contrast, a breadth-first search will look only minimally into a topic before moving on to another; any new depth exposed by this minimal check will be added to a list of stuff to do later. This would have allowed Hairy to briefly check many more things within the time allotted, and probably still have been able to get dressed if, in dealing breadth-first in the first layer of concerns, he quickly identified (and prioritized/satisfied) the need to be properly dressed and ready to go out.
-The relationship advice given in the title text on using breadth-first search may not be meant too seriously. However, one might be more sure about what kind of person one is looking for after already having dated a few people. But then the right one, might have slipped by. It is by no means certain that you can return to one of the first persons you dated after having dated another dozen.
+The relationship advice given in the title text on using breadth-first search may not be meant too seriously. However, one might be more sure about what kind of person one is looking for after already having dated a few people. But by then, the right one might have slipped by. It is by no means certain that you can return to one of the first persons you dated after having dated another dozen.
 It is, however, not very useful, if you wish to have a stable family life, to "only" be with a person for five years. So DFS is for sure a bad way to find out who you wish to spend you life with. One might conclude that blind search is not a good way to find your significant other. But for most people, there is no other way to search.

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 | image     = dfs.png
 | titletext = A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.
-}} <div style='background:red;color:white;float:left;position:fixed;top:0;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;z-index:29374738'><center><big><big><big style=font-size:100px><br>Fuck you!</big></big></big></center></div>
+}}
 ==Explanation==

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 Hairy uses the '''DFS''' technique, as indicated in the comic title, which means going as far as you possibly can down one path before looking at other possibilities. This turns out to be a bad idea, as Hairy's searches takes him out on a tangent. Instead of preparing for his date, Hairy instead spent the whole time [[#Snake venom|doing research]] on {{w|snake venom}}, to the exclusion of even getting dressed in time for the arrival of his date. The way the last panel is the only panel and at the far right in the second row vs. four panels in the top row, indicates all the time he has used on DFS. And although he may realize his mistake, throwing up his arms, he has to tell [[Ponytail]] the fact he has found out that the {{w|inland taipan}}'s has the deadliest venom of any snake (see [[#Snake venom|more]] below).
-By contrast, a breadth-first search will look only minimally into a topic before moving on to another; any new depth exposed by this minimal check will be added to a list of stuff to do later. This would have allowed Hairy to briefly check many more things within the time allotted, and probably still have been able to get dressed if, in dealing breadth-first in the first layer of concerns, he quickly identified (and prioritised/satisfied) the need to be properly dressed and ready to go out.
+By contrast, a breadth-first search will look only minimally into a topic before moving on to another; any new depth exposed by this minimal check will be added to a list of stuff to do later. This would have allowed Hairy to briefly check many more things within the time allotted, and probably still have been able to get dressed if, in dealing breadth-first in the first layer of concerns, he quickly identified (and prioritized/satisfied) the need to be properly dressed and ready to go out.
 The relationship advice given in the title text on using breadth-first search may not be meant too seriously. However, one might be more sure about what kind of person one is looking for after already having dated a few people. But then the right one, might have slipped by. It is by no means certain that you can return to one of the first persons you dated after having dated another dozen.