The Last Digit Of Pi

Newton's second law: F = ma. But in this case, "F" is labeled "Fysics" (the budget spelling of Physics), "m" is labeled "math," and "a" is labeled "a whole lot of tears." The perfect equation for every physics student's experience. The force required to pass physics equals your mathematical ability multiplied by an excessive amount of suffering. Whoever made this clearly spent as much effort on spelling "physics" as most students do on their homework the night before it's due.

Trust me, I've seen enough "revolutionary" proofs to last seven academic careers. The Millennium Prize Problems are math's equivalent of climbing Everest in flip-flops—seven unsolved mathematical mountains with a million-dollar bounty each. Every month some bright-eyed optimist waltzes into my office with "the solution" scribbled on napkins. Sure, and I'm secretly Fields Medal material who just enjoys grading calculus exams for fun. The mathematical community doesn't just press X to doubt—we smash that button until it breaks. Remember when that one guy claimed to solve P vs NP and then his proof collapsed faster than my will to live during faculty meetings? Good times.

The mathematical conspiracy unfolds! Our stick figure protagonist discovers the number 51 isn't prime (it's 3×17) and is utterly bewildered—questioning reality itself. In the second panel, they've accepted their fate as a prime number investigator, with 51 now properly positioned between composite numbers 12, 85, and 49. The "a prime?? in thecompositefactory??" line is peak mathematician horror—finding an imposter among your carefully sorted numbers is basically a numerical security breach!

It's the scientific food chain in action! Each field thinks it's the top dog while getting threatened by the next level of reductionism. Biology smugly sits there until Chemistry shows up with a gun saying "you're just applied chemistry." Then Physics crashes the party threatening Chemistry as "just applied physics." But wait! The final boss appears from the shadows - Mathematics - ready to reduce Physics to mere equations! The eternal academic turf war continues... and somewhere a philosopher is loading a bazooka labeled "but what even IS mathematics?"

The classic engineering bait-and-switch! High school: "I'm pretty good at math and science, engineering seems logical!" First semester of university: *drowning in differential equations while surviving on ramen and caffeine* That moment when you realize your high school physics teacher conveniently forgot to mention that "solving for x" would become "solving for your will to live." The clown makeup isn't applied—it's earned through sleepless nights of wondering why you didn't just major in business like your parents suggested.

The mathematical mind-bender we all needed! Someone's asking how many sides a circle has, and the answers range from "0" to "infinite" with "1" and "2 (inside & outside)" in between. This is actually a fascinating geometry problem that mathematicians have debated. A circle is technically a single curved line (so 1 side?), but that line contains infinite points (so infinite sides?). Or maybe it has 0 sides since it has no straight edges? Or perhaps 2 sides if you count the inside and outside boundaries? Next time you want to see your math professor have an existential crisis, just drop this question during office hours!