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| title = Decline | | title = Decline | ||
| image = decline.png | | image = decline.png | ||
| − | | titletext = 'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--' 'You want to stop talking right now.' | + | | titletext = 'There is also a spike on the Fourier transformation at the one month mark where--' 'You want to stop talking right now.' |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| + | {{Incomplete}} | ||
| + | Following the flow of the comic, the reader is led to think that [[Cueball]] is angry at his wife about their relationship, accentuated by the "relationship graph." Subsequently, the wife says that the decline is actually due to Cueball's out-of-control fascination with graphing, to which he responds (unwittingly?) with [[552: Correlation|"correlation does not mean causation"]]. | ||
| − | + | A Fourier transform breaks down the graph into periodic components. A spike at 1-month on the Fourier transform would mean that something happens every month that causes the relationship to decline. This is probably a reference to Megan's {{w|menstruation}}, that is, her 'time of the month,' stereotypically depicted by having a woman uncharacteristically, sometimes, violently, always ludicrously, crabby. | |
| − | + | [[26: Fourier|Fourier transformations were mentioned previously in ''xkcd''.]] | |
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| − | Fourier transformations were mentioned previously in | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | :[Cueball is pointing at a line graph at a specific point where it slopes down. The | + | :[Cueball is pointing at a line graph at a specific point where it slopes down. The Y Axis shows that as Y increases, Love increases.] |
| − | :Cueball: Our relationship entered its decline at this point. | + | :Cueball: "Our relationship entered its decline at this point." |
| − | :Megan | + | :Megan: "That's when you started graphing everything." |
| − | :Cueball: Coincidence! | + | :Cueball: "Coincidence!" |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] |
| + | [[Category:Charts]] | ||
[[Category:Romance]] | [[Category:Romance]] | ||
