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Thursday Toon Roundup 1- Dickin' the Middle East (Original Post)
n2doc
Jun 2014
OP
The second last cartoonist does not understand "inversely proportional". Has it backwards. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2014
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Gothmog
(145,839 posts)2. Thank you for the cartoons
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)3. The second last cartoonist does not understand "inversely proportional". Has it backwards. nt
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)5. I think he has it right
He's using "brevity" as a measurable quality that can be treated as the absence of length.
The disastrous consequence of a war (per the diagram) is directly proportional to the length of its goal. Brevity is inversely proportional to length.
It might be less confusing to say that the disastrous consequence of a war is directly proportional to the prolixity of its official explanation.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)6. Thanks!
I don't know how I got so confused by that. Unusual for me, but it happens!
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)4. Thank you! n/t