Comic #6492: integral

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Panel 1: Kid: "Dad, can you explain integral calculus?" Dad: "Oh, it's stupid."

Panel 2: Dad: "You draw a curve and say how much is under the curve. More broadly, it's a kind of fancy multiplication of functions as they do something."

Panel 3: Kid: "That's it? People spend their entire lives on this stuff and that's all it is?" Dad: "Well, the thing is, outside about two and a half kinds of function, the moment you take the integral everything goes right to shit."

Panel 4: Dad: "It's like living in a world where everyone looks nice but carries a switchblade. You meet an innocent little function and then you ask about its integral and out comes the square root of the log of the inverse tangent of e to the i goddamn son of a bitch."

Panel 5: Kid: "Why… why does the universe work this way?" Dad: "It is proof that God exists and wants us to suffer."