Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.
+C
Thought about making shirts with that printed on the front during first year calculus.
I don't get it. What is the progression in this supposed to be?
My interpretation is that Jon starts talking about how division by 0 is not possible. Garfield then goes on about how we can use limits to assign values to such expressions, which we can use to calculate derivatives. I guess Garfield starts to question whether dy/dx really exists after all this.
Jon then changes the subject to be about integrals, which Garfield is immediately annoyed about the missing +C.
It’s super funny.
Haha thanks for the explanation :) Actually figuring out that Jon cannot hear Garfields thoughts and that Garfield is always a step ahead of him made it much easier to understand
Is the +C "new"? I have a B.Sc majoring in mathematics. Now I graduated over 30 years ago and I never used much that I leaned in my degree during my career - so I couldn't differentiate or integrate to save my life today. But, the equations at least look familiar. The +C does not.
Definitely not new. However, in many practical applications you can sorta kinda ignore it (but definitely not all!).
You can divide by zero if you like, you just need to snap your fingers and wish really hard and a brand new number called Infinity appears.
It's like magic!
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