thirty third dance | text;

[motioned]

how can x equal so many different things

isn't it only one letter

shouldn't it only be able to be one number too


[Math is hard, her life is difficult, and this was totally worth talking to the network about. Anything to distract her from homework...]

Comments

[leading3men]

That's just an example. Math and art are usually separate unless you are Escher.

So this is how this whole x thing works:

x + 1 = 2

X symbolizes a number that's been added with one. Whatever that's been added with one, the answer came out to be two. So now you need to find out what the X stands for.

[motioned]

escher?

i think it's one... but i don't get how it can be one in that problem and four in another!

[leading3men]

Artist who drew mathematical impossibilities. Or something like that, I'm not sure what. His drawings are crazy.

[ quick attachment on one of Escher's work. ]

That's right. It is one.

That's because the problem varies, and so does the x. Don't worry about how x can be four in one problem, and ten in the next. You just focus on one thing at a time.

[motioned]

[Hold up, what is that picture...]

how did he do that??