2899: Looks Like He Just Got Remaindered
| Looks Like He Just Got Remaindered |
 Made by: Nyperold |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
In the original strip, Jon wanted to enter Garfield into the show, but the man joked that they don't have a "fat" division. In this edit, he wanted to enter Longcat, a cat who was once photographed stretching out and gained a memetic mythology, into the show, prompting the man to joke that they don't have a "long" division.
"Long division" is the practice of showing one's work in the process of division, subtracting multiples of the divisor from parts of the dividend starting as far left as possible and moving one place value to the right each time, multiplying the difference by 10 and adding the next place value between each division. Once the ones place is done, the mathematician may continue dividing to get a decimal answer, take the leftover number (called a remainder) and make it the numerator in a fraction with the divisor as the denominator (some reduction may be desired), or leave the remainder as-is, placing it after an "r" or something to indicate that it is the remainder and not part of the rest of the number.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Entering Longcat into a cat show for the sake of a math pun? Yes. Yes.
Original strip: 1980-04-01.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: I'd like to enter Longcat in the cat show.
Guy: Okay.
Guy: Hmmm, lesee here, hmmm...
Guy: I'm sorry. We don't have a "long" division.
{Jon restrains Longcat.}
Longcat: Let me at him!
