Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 06, 2012

34

Batten down the bun, Mrs. Olsen!

Yeah, but even in math, some answers are just unreal…

42 – oh wait. Wrong question.

12 x √408 = 242.388118521

the twelfth root of 408 = 1.65027003352

What grade is Caulfield in that she’s giving that type of math question?

Thanks, simsonfan….. VicThor, if it’s beyond seventh grade, it’s beyond me…..

Notsoastute, that’s the one thing I like about math…..there is only one answer….it’s just never the one I come up with…

If I’d had ONE Caulfield every year, I’d not have quit teaching…

Odd – I can’t see it at all. Not on my comics on google, not on the GoComics page, not on the link to the Frazz page. Oh well…

That’s what I thought it meant, too. But it’s been so long since I saw a problem shown like that, instead of 408/12, I didn’t remember. God, I’m gettin’ old. As to 12th root of something, I have no idea how you’d solve for it, nor how you would use it in the real world.

And in case “Zoom it” doesn’t mean anything to you, click on the magnifying glass at the right end of the line under where the comic is supposed to be. Always try that first if a comic doesn’t show. It works a lot of the time.Paul Smith, it’s the curved vertical arc instead of a straight line. I don’t remember seeing that before either and it threw me for a bit.

She must have asked the wrong question. The answer to that one is 34, but the answer to life, the universe, everything, is 42.

Caulfield has the same problem as Gladstone, who according to Sellar and Yeatman, “spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question”.

What was the Irish question?

I take it Caulfield is a follower to Henri, le Chat Noir

Nick V: You mean like the square root of minus one?

Sreejay, what did you teach? And at what level? I respect people who have been in the arena. I’m guessing this strip draws a lot of them there teacher types…It got me….

The definition sounds good to me. What?oh, math classWell least he finally found a way to make math class fun.

Kierkegaard would be would be screaming at that answer.

@Paul Smith I would have sworn that it had the extra hook on it yesterday, that made it the root sign… (when we had to zoom to see it…)