#2610: Assigning Numbers

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball holds a hand up to his chin while he ponders the contents of what may be a whiteboard. There are five general lines of unreadable scribbling on the board, and between the two bottom lines, there is a square frame to the right with another scribble to the left. Cueball's thoughts are shown above him in a large thought bubble.]

Cueball's thinking: If I assign numbers to each of these things, then it becomes data, and I can do math on it!

[Caption beneath the panel:]

The same basic idea underlies Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and all bad data science.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Gödel should do an article on which branches of math have the lowest average theorem number.


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