Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social

My latest cartoon for New Scientist.

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NutMeg @casuallychaotic.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 09:31 UTC

They used to be used for road signs too, but that industry got privatised and started using a specialist font not compatible with most other number uses.

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Zack, still trying to find out what good are notebooks. @zedayseekay.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 10:04 UTC

You know who is responsible for this? Big Number!

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Zack, still trying to find out what good are notebooks. @zedayseekay.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 10:04 UTC

Wait a second. Those are cardinal numbers and those are ordinal use cases. You fool!

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wildmonkeysects™ @wildmonkeysects.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 10:43 UTC

There is still a shortage of perfect squares.

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Aemeth @aemeth.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 09:59 UTC

I just read this in Irving's voice from Severance

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Martin Haesemeyer @haesemeyerlab.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 13:03 UTC

Must be the applied maths department…

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Marius Loots @mariusloots.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 11:05 UTC

Is that why calendars don't last as long as they did when I was a kid?

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Dr. Uncle Beard @unclebeard1978.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 11:01 UTC

I love this idea

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LeSurath @lesurath.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Terrific idea!

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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 10:11 UTC

The industry had a radical slow-down when pocket calculators and eventually smartphones took over and the huge production runs of '4-figure Trig Tables' slumped almost overnight.

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🦋🦋 @b7bird.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 10:00 UTC

Number Sales boomed when computers were invented ! The massive mechanical press showed in the Apple commercial is used to press the lifetime supply into the CPU Silicon. Crypto is trying to produce synthetic numbers so the world supply is maintained.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

Finally, an explanation of Lumon Corporation's business model.

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@readeradrift.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 11:16 UTC

great!

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