#2694: Königsberg

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball, standing next to two men wearing wigs, pointing with a pointer at a map showing the seven bridges problem, with an extra bridge added in dashed lines]

Cueball: Lord Mayor of Königsberg, I will reward you handsomely if you construct this bridge before my friend Leonhard arrives.

[Caption below the panel:]

I tried to use a time machine to cheat on my algorithms final by preventing graph theory from being invented.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:At first I thought I would need some gold or something to pay him, but then I realized that it was the 18th century and I could just bring a roll of aluminum foil.


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