Comic #5463: irrational-3

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Panel 1: Person 1: "God, how come the square root of two has infinite decimal length?"
Person 2: "No it doesn't. It's 14. Exactly 14."

Panel 2: Person 1: "Look, here's my calculator:"
(Calculator displaying: 1.414213562373…)

Panel 3: Person 1: "Jesus, lemme check and… oh man there’s overflow errors in an uncountably infinite set of numbers!"
Person 2: "Is life meant to be simpler then? Have you now seen our strife and come to make things better?"

Panel 4: Person 2: "Uh… I…"
Voice from the sky: "Yes."

Panel 5: (Shows a large egg-like object in the clouds and a laptop screen displaying: "sudo rm -rf /")