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It's just the khhh sound of scraping the potato with the handle. Sort of like the POW! in an English language comic is not about exponentiation.
by pvg 5y ago
It's just the khhh sound of scraping the potato with the handle. Sort of like the POW! in an English language comic is not about exponentiation.
- Jtsummers 5y agoI also thought about that, and thought it might be the case. It just amused me that it worked both ways (if you take the К as an alternative to λ) and I was curious if it was anywhere else in the book. And in an English language comic about math I could see POW (or similar) being used in both ways, as both the conventional sound sense and in a joking math sense (in some context). Since this is a comic about computers, the lambda calculus interpretation (even as a throwaway joke that would go over the reader's head) seemed plausible.
- pvg 5y agoRight but I think the typography/scan quality and not being able to read the rest of the text for context is leading you astray here - this book is roughly at the level of the more basic Usborne books. It's a long, long way from mentioning lambda calculus.