Comic #2816: 2013-02-01

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Description

Comic Description:

• Panel Overview: The scene depicts a classroom with a teacher standing in front of a green chalkboard. The teacher is an older man with a gray beard, wearing glasses, and dressed in a shirt and a sweater.

• Teacher's Dialogue:
  • “It’s called a Fourier Transform when you take a number and convert it to the base system where it will have more fours, thus making it 'Fourier.' If you pick the base with the most fours, the number is said to be ‘Fouriest.’”
• Chalkboard Content:
  • The chalkboard shows the following numerical conversions:
    • ( 624{10} \rightarrow 1160{8} )
    • ( 440_{12} ) (down arrow)
    • ( 4444_{5} ) (check mark)
• Additional Note at the Bottom:
  • “Teaching math was way more fun after tenure.”