Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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| − | | number = 584
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| − | | date = November 25, 2012
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| − | | title = Unsatisfied
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| − | | titletext = 'Forever comparing, never evaluating on any external scale. If you were a sort function, you'd never break the nlogn barrier.'
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| − | ==Explanation==
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| − | In this comic [[Cueball]] is trying to decide if he wants to stay with [[Ponytail]] who he is currently dating or leave her and have a relationship with [[Megan]]. The comic suggests that no matter which one he chooses he will never truly achieve happiness because of his longing for the option he chose not to take. In a sense this is a {{w|No-win_situation|no-win situation}}.
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| − | The title text is referring to a concept in computer science, all {{w|Comparison_sort|comparison based sorting algorithms}} are incapable of sorting an arbitrary set of n values faster then an order of n*log(n)*k where k is an arbitrary constant and n is the number of values to compare.
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| − | If [[Cueball]] was capable of establishing an external scale he could use use {{w|Bucket_sort|bucket sort}} or different order n {{w|Sorting_algorithm|sorting algorithm}}, but as he does not know what the best thing for him is he can't establish limits and thus he can't achieve this.
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| − | ==Transcript==
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| − | :[Cueball, Ponytail, and Megan stand stand looking at each other.]
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| − | :[Cueball considers who he wants to be with.]
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| − | :[Cueball thinks of the different bedroom activities the two prefer.]
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| − | :[Cueball thinks of the different ways that the two women spend their free time.]
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| − | :[Cueball thinks of how happy he could be with the woman he did not choose.]
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| − | :[Cueball, even in death, thinks of being dead in a grave near the woman he did not choose.]
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| − | {{comic discussion}}
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
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Revision as of 17:36, 25 November 2012
