Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.
+C
Thought about making shirts with that printed on the front during first year calculus.
I don’t get it. What is the progression in this supposed to be?
My interpretation is that Jon starts talking about how division by 0 is not possible. Garfield then goes on about how we can use limits to assign values to such expressions, which we can use to calculate derivatives. I guess Garfield starts to question whether dy/dx really exists after all this.
Jon then changes the subject to be about integrals, which Garfield is immediately annoyed about the missing +C.
It’s super funny.
Is the +C “new”? I have a B.Sc majoring in mathematics. Now I graduated over 30 years ago and I never used much that I leaned in my degree during my career - so I couldn’t differentiate or integrate to save my life today. But, the equations at least look familiar. The +C does not.
You can divide by zero if you like, you just need to snap your fingers and wish really hard and a brand new number called Infinity appears.
It’s like magic!
