/sci/ - Science & Math

But then I got bored today.

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inb4 modulus measures the door
>get on the floor
>everybody walk the dinosaur

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>>6356344
Don't worry, I've never yet done that terrible walk the dinosaur gag and I'm not about to start.

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I'm tempted for shits and giggles to actually try drawing it out by hand, but I'm pretty sure that'd end up looking worse than this.

>>6356340
Wow. How the dicks was I never taught this?
Thanks, Modulus.

It's pretty good, have you thought about self publishing it?

[autism intensifies]

modulus is a pretty cool guy

>>6356344
>It would be 628 meters big
You mean square meters, don't you?

>>6356623
Eh doesn't afraid of anything

>>6356625
I was debating whether to put square meters, but then I'd have to spend a page or two trying to explain in a simple way what the term "squared" means. Since the terminology is irrelevant really, I figured I'd drop that and stick with at least teaching the math itself. I could have defined most terms a lot more thoroughly... but the terms themselves don't matter as much.

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Was debating it, but I'm shit at drawing by hand as well. One day I may take a swing at it, maybe come up with some backgrounds or something... but yeah, my art skills basically limit that. The cover is just cobbled together pictures I found online.

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I know, right? I was never taught that proof in school ever, but it just makes sense. When I was looking up proofs for area of a circle, I found this triangle proof and... yeah... if proofs like this were taught in school, maybe I'd have done less shitty in math back in the day.


Hmm... I wonder if I can find a place to ask if anyone who can actually draw wants to illustrate this. Wasn't planning to bother selling it, just self-publish it for free. I can't fathom anyone actually wanting to pay money for this :P

I'm kind of dissapointed by the lack of use of the term Moduli Space. Clearly that's the space where he plays with his friends.

Hey, I remember that last thread! I bumped it a couple times because I wanted to see the rest but it died.

>>6356767
Hey faggot. Yes, you. Put it on kickstarter. With that money pay somebody who can draw to illustrate it and then publish it.

>>6356931
that would actually be pretty cool, you could publish a small book of dinosaur math stories for kids

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I'd be buying at least six for niece/nephew birthdays

this dino is so fucking cute :3

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Fuck yeah! I'd contribute to a Kickstarter campaign.

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>adventures
>plural
You need to make a bunch of these. I like it.

>>6356931
Great idea. You have to find some way to get the word out. Comment on numberphile videos or some shit.

I've literally been waiting a day for the next page, and I just realized there is no chapter 2. Why?

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+1

>>6356340
>If I used the radius as the height, it would be the same size as the circle
I do not follow.

Forgive my ignorance, but how do we make the leap from a circle's area (or "how big it is") to a triangle?
I'm not familiar with this connection and it doesn't strike me as intuitive. I guess I can visualize it as follows:
We have a circle possessing a defined area. We could cut the circle from center to edge, this cut would be the radius. If we then "unrap" the circle in order to make the perimeter edge of the circle into a straight line, we find that have a straight line connecting the center of the circle to the distant edge of the straightened out perimeter.

Is there a better way to understand this? (Excluding of course simply comparing the formula for a right triangle to the formula for a circle's area: 1/2bh=1/2(pi*2d)r, which shows the equivilence but not the source of intuitive connection suggested by Modulus). I think the comic would be better if you explained this point a bit more and introduced the idea of area. Talking about "bigness" the whole time seems like a mistake to me. If the reader understands anything in the story they'll be able to comprehend a well introduced concept of area.

Oops I meant 1/2(pi*2r)r

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>>6359897
same question here, that line of reasoning is missing from the story

>>6359895
Its because triangles and circles are topologically equivalent.

>>6356340
Someone explain this step.

Take all circumferences of radiuses from 0 to r. imagine they are straight lines and put them next to one another. You have a triangle.

Alternatively integrate 2pi*r from 0 to r.

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So are rectangles, what's your point?

Anyone remember this book?

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