Math Horror Movies: Children

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y = 666

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Math Horror Movies: Vector

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Don't get me started about the Head of Vector!

I didn't get to do any of the Halloween comics that I actually planned out in advance. Ironically, this wasn't one of them. This one came just came to me Halloween evening.

Evil points this way sounded better than Evil has a direction.

What's your opinion?

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Cuadricula

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It'll rattle your diverticula!

If I can find a place in the curricula.

I have to translate some of my notes into Spanish for the English Language Learners in the class. And after the third or fourth time I said "cuadricula", you can imagine the Legosi accent that I wanted to add to it. And then I remembered from the old TV GUIDE that the spanish stations didn't have "MOVIE" listings. They had "PELICULA". So that was added in.

I did try to find more Spanish words ending in -icula, but Google would only give me English. Or it would translate the phrase "words ending in -icula" into Spanish.

Sadly, I thought the translation was going to be "box", but it was "grid" or "square". Had it been "box", then the vampire would've been in a coffin.

I tagged this one "Halloween" just so it'll pop up when I click on it.

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Happy Halloween 2021!

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Happy Halloween

Like many of my age and/or generation, the first real Halloween special on TV, and something that could be classified as "appointment television" was the annual showing of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" It's a pity that many younger people don't get the same joy from it's simplicity. The animation is old and program itself doesn't seem to get a lot of advance advertising on the networks. you have togo look for it, or find it on streaming. And, let's face it, it's a bit of a downer, which we'd watch again and again wondering if it would be happier the year after or not. (Keep of like watching reruns of Gilligan's Island for years to see if they'd ever get rescued.)

As for the math, a "great circle" is any circle around a sphere that has the center of the sphere as its center. A great arc would be a portion of that circle and would represent the shortest distance between two points on the outside of a sphere.

There may be a bonus Halloween comic tomorrow (Monday) because there was a school-based comic that was to appear on Friday, but between being busy with school and just being extremely tired on Saturday, it didn't get done. And if I save it for next year, it won't likely happen.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

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Math Horror Movies: The Hungry Cardioid

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At least, I didn't make a Cardioid B joke.

There's no "B" movie named "The Hungry Heart" that I'm aware of. I was originally going for a "Tell-Tale Heart" comic. However, when I started working on it, my homemade ink blot was telling me Pac-Man, so I went that route. But then I needed a new title because there wasn't anything "tell tale" about Pac-Man. Maybe next year for this.

No promises on Cardioid B though. How's that for scary?

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Math Horror Ways: Seven Ways ...

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It's to DivIdE for!

I have probably used all of these with the exception of b\a. The colon notation looked out at first, because I usually see it written in a proportion more than as just a single ratio, which is division.

The backward notation is useful for the distinction between "a divided by b" and "b divided into a". There are, of course, the same thing, but students get confused by the wording. I assume it's similar to the problem with "20 less than a number" being written as N - 20 and not 20 - N.

But everyone should have learned their "gazintas" at an early age.

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Math Horror Movies: Too Gross!

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You'll get dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of complaints! And More!

It's just too much! And you know just how much!!

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Math Horror Movies: Red

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In Space, No One Can Hear You Get Mad Dept.

That time of year, again, when I need more shlocky Halloween-type horror B-movie titles.

I love 'em and hate 'em at the same time.

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School Life #18: Happy Halloween 2020

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I don't know how happy it'll be. Maybe it'll be more stealthy.

In years past, no facial coverings were allowed in school. Face makeup is fine, but not actual masks. (I have twice, at different schools, gone as Green Lantern using face paint.) This year, everyone is masked up.

The other amusing thing is how many heroes have masks that don't cover their mouths. This works well visually for comics and movies so the characters can be more expressive.

Non-turtle ninjas seem an obvious choice for a costume that covers the face but leaves the eyes visible. The problem is that it looks like regular dark clothing that's been accessorized.

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Happy Halloween 2019

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The waves are in motion.

One thought I had this year was to have Missy as herself while the others were dressed as Pokemon. Don't know if it would've worked.

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Math Horror Movies: Things To Come

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But is it a good sine? You could ask the Wishing Wells...

Depends -- is y = |.3x| sin (.8x) a good sine?

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Math Horror Movies: Kong

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Tis twin beauties killed the identical beasts!

I enlarged the size of this comic so I wouldn't have to crop the image too much. I was going to shrink it again afterward, but I think I've been making these comics too small all along -- something that I discovered when they asked me to increase the size of some comics so that they could be used in a text book.

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How Much Candy?

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N = 0 is also a possibility ... but not very likely.




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Happy Halloween 2018

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She may be good Annie by day, but wait until evil Annie comes out at night!

For the record, I was Raggedy Andy for Halloween many, many years ago, but not as part of a couple's costume. I just had my Andy along with me.

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Math Horror Movies: Sine of Parallelostein

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Completing the original trilogy, with help from Igor.

Co-incidentally, given that Frankenstein was the name of the Doctor, not the monster, it is curious that his Bride appears in the second film and his Son in the third. The creature doesn't exactly marry the female creature created for it, nor does it produce any offspring... that we know of!!! Wait, no, it doesn't.

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Math Horror Movies: Nosferatu

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Once he bugs you, you'll never debug!

And leave out one semi-colon ... lose one NEXT ... increment the wrong index ...

Terror Stalks the Code!

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Math Horror Movies: The Fraction of the Opera

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Have you heard his eighth note?

And always hold your finger to the level of your i.

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