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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan (europe.pub)
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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan

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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.

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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.
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[–] 69 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Somebody already posted the famous phrase in another thread:

Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    You know, I was going to say that tetration or busy beaver numbers would counter that argument, but then again I guess they’d pretty much just look like vertical lines if the stroke weight of the marker was enough to cover the curved behavior around zero.

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