Comic #4296: a-new-set-of-numbers

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Comic Description: The comic consists of several panels featuring two characters discussing a concept in mathematics. One character, with curly hair and glasses, is enthusiastically explaining an idea, while the other looks skeptical and frustrated. The background features a chalkboard with mathematical symbols.

Panel 1:

• Text: "I've discovered an entirely novel set of numbers."

Panel 2:

• Text: "Primes are sometimes thought of as the 'atoms of numbers,' but primes are still divisible by themselves and by 1. There must be something 'sub-atomic,' something truly indivisible."

Panel 3:

• Text: "I call them invinci-primes."
• "Invinci-primes can't be divided by anything."

Panel 4:

• The character says: "Consider the first invinci-prime, invinci-2."

Panel 5:

• Character reacts: "I try to divide it by 2, and oh sweet Jesus that's brutal."

Panel 6:

• Background shows "Divide and conquer."
• The character looks frustrated: "But you didn't DO anything. You just made pictures on a blackboard, describing a meaningless concept!"

Panel 7:

• The first character responds: "I am a mathematical formalist!"

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