[[Woman is sitting in an armchair, reading a book.]]
Woman: Are there eigenvectors in Cinderella?
Man: ... no?
Woman: The prince didn't use them to match the shoe to its owner?
Man: What are you TALKING about?
Woman: Dammit.
[[Flashback. Girl is in bed, mom is sitting on the edge of the bed reading.]]
My mom is one of those people who falls asleep while reading, but keeps talking. She's a math professor, so she'd start rambling about her work.
Mom: But while the ant gathered food ...
Mom: ... zzzz ...
Mom: ... the grasshopper contracted to a point on a manifold that was NOT a 3-sphere ...
I'm still not sure which versions are real.
[[Present.]]
Man: You didn't notice the drastic subject changes?
Woman: Well, sometimes her versions were better. We loved Inductive White and the (N-1) Dwarfs.
Woman: I guess the LIM x->inf (x) little pigs did get a bit weird toward the end ...
{{Title text: Goldilocks' discovery of Newton's method for approximation required surprisingly few changes.}}
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.