South America should be able to reach xkcd again. I’m sorry to those of you there who haven’t been able to reach the site over the last week. There was a semi-complicated problem with some dead routers at ThePlanet’s datacenter. It should be fixed now. The problem with posting about it is that it doesn’t reach the people who are actually being affected :)
The whole Verizon thing continues to be incredibly entertaining. It’s great when someone is dealing with some minor-in-the-grand-scheme-of-things-but-incredibly-frustrating situation — and the entire blagosphere just decides to drop in commiserate, and back him up. Fun times to be had by all! Here’s my contribution:
I did almost the same thing with a check, I had wrote -20e^Ï€i in the little $ box and on the line I had wrote “Negative 20e to the pi times i power”. When my friend tried to cash it they told him they couldn’t because e or i aren’t numbers.
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This verizon math thing makes my inner soul weep.
Omg, cool check.
Verizon need to get their math straight..
Reading that check was the hardest I’ve laughed in recent memory. You should just make that the next xkcd strip, and link it to the verizonmath blog.
@arturus
mine too. but only because i’m laughing so hard.
that…was wonderful
I should write a check for 1,000,000^0 dollars.
@Tim
I don’t know… that could be a risky proposition. They’ll probably misread it and charge you ten million.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all week :D
Wonderful!
@Randall
I put a picture of your “contribution” on my blog because it’s the funniest response I have seen yet. I have credited the photo with a link to your website, but if you want it taken off my blog just let me know.
KH
Hi. I’m from Chile. Yeah, that was very frustrating. I had to access the comic from a public proxy.
*snickers at the contribution*
I found your site through the Verizon thing – do you mind if I put the picture on my blog as well?
Glad to here about the South American issue is fixed (writing from Argentina), had been trying to read your comic for days or weeks I think, didn’t even know you were aware of the issue. =)
About Verizon: Hard to believe some people can be so thick…
Hey xkcd, you got your check picture linked.
http://www.consumerist.com./consumer/verizonmath/solve-this-math-problem-verizon-221345.php
You got a courtesy link all the way at the bottom. You’d think they’d link the picture to the right place. Sheesh.
I am writting from colombia, really nice to hear the south american problem was resolved, i had to gte my fix through a public proxy.
Ok Guys, This B.S. needs to stop. Yes, I am familliar with the difference in .002 dollars v. Cents. Anyone who has enough time to call Verizon Wireless and badger their hard working employees over and over is very immature. If you have something to say to me, Rbo2a@mtsu.edu
It sounds like Richard here is Verizon call center employee — and he receives my sympathies for having to share in the reputation of the folks who actually screwed up.
If i did my math right, you sent verizon a check for 1/5 of a cent
You might want to blur your check number, and the fractional identifiers beneath it.
Really.
You should blank out stuff on the check, not blur it.
Apparently, heres why:
http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php
I love the check. To find out the amount, I fired up my copy of Mathcad. When the result came rolling out, I felt stupid for not figuring it out on my own.
In my defense, it is now 2:24 AM here.
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When he got transfered to the second person I thought ‘aw jeez; this one’s going to understand and it’s all going to get sorted, what a pain’. What I wasn’t expecting was the most confusing mathematical dialogue since Plato’s Meno.
“Do you recognise that there’s a difference between a dollar and a cent?”
“Definately.”
“Do you recognize that there’s a difference between half a dollar and half a cent?”
“Definately.”
“Therefore you recognize that there’s a difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents.”
“No,”
“No?”
“There’s no such thing as .002 dollars.”
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LOL wow that is an interesting article. Funny thing is thats the same thing tyhat happened to me so i just screwed them and switched to another high speed internet service provider for DSL. They offer other broadband also, check them out: http://t1linepricequote.com
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I was playing around with the audio feature.
And instead of saying “I am” it says “I A-M”.
It made me giggle.
she gets that $0.01 is one cent
and she can’t see that 0.02 is larger than that?
clearly she can only see decimal numbers in terms of dollars.
shouldn’t she have learned conversion in grade 3 or 4?
great post dude, i like it :P
I found your site through the Verizon thing – do you mind if I put the picture on my blog as well?