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[2328] Space Basketball

Published on July 3, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:My shooting will improve over the short term, but over the long term the universe will take more shots.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2328/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2328:_Space_Basketball

宇宙篮球

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2328

兰德尔（Randall）的《我的爱好》系列中的另一部漫画与他的上一部爱好漫画《2326：五字行话》在同一周内发行。

兰德尔（Randall）希望在太空中对抗篮球，因此冠名太空篮球。（… Read more

[2327] Oily House Index

Published on July 1, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:We’re underwater on our mortgage thanks to the low price of water.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2327/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2327:_Oily_House_Index

油房指数

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2327

在经济学中，指数是对代表性数据点组中的变化进行统计的度量。普通指数包括纳斯达克（纳斯达克）（衡量一系列股票价格）和消费者价格指数（衡量零售价格）

该图表显示了一个发明的指数，即“油价房屋指数”，该指数用来衡量一段时间内石油价格… Read more

[2326] Five Word Jargon

Published on June 29, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:My other (much harder) hobby is trying to engineer situations where I have an excuse to use more than one of them in short succession.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2326/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2326:_Five_Word_Jargon

五个单词组成的术语

我另一个（更硬核的）爱好是——尝试创造可以在短时间内连续使用多个这类术语的情景。

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2326

兰德尔（Randall）的《我的业余爱好》系列中的另一部漫画，是同一周发行的两部业余漫画中的第一部… Read more

[2325] Endorheic Basin

Published on June 26, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:My biggest fear is that colonial engineers will try to flood me to generate electricity. My biggest hope is that I’ll develop sailing stones.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2325/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2325:_Endorheic_Basin

内流盆地

[2324] Old Days 2

Published on June 24, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:The git vehicle fleet eventually pivoted to selling ice cream, but some holdovers remain. If you flag down an ice cream truck and hand the driver a floppy disk, a few hours later you’ll get an invite to a git repo.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2324/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2324:_Old_Days_2

过去 2

Git使用的车型后来都用来卖冰激凌了，但仍存在一些历史残留。如果你招手拦下一辆冰激凌车，递给驾驶员一张软盘，几个小时后，你会得到加入某个g

[2323] Modeling Study

Published on June 22, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:You’ve got questions, we’ve got assumptions.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2323/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2323:_Modeling_Study

模型研究

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2323

在这部漫画中，对两种常见的科学研究类型进行了幽默的比较：实证研究（设计用于检验科学理论的实验）和数学建模，其中产生数学公式以预测物理系统在给定情况下的行为。在实证研究中，有关现有理论局限性的难题通常倾向于以抽象形式解决，这是在大多数科学文章开始时对论文的简要总结。在建模研究中，将基于现… Read more

[2322] ISO Paper Size Golden Spiral

Published on June 19, 2020July 10, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:The ISO 216 standard ratio is cos(45掳), but American letter paper is 8.5×11 because it uses radians, and 11/8.5 = pi/4.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2322/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2322:_ISO_Paper_Size_Golden_Spiral

国际标准纸张尺寸的黄金螺旋线

ISO 216国际标准纸张的比例是cos(45°)，但美国信纸大小是8.5×11。因为它使用弧度制，而11/8.5 = π/4。
脚注：
国际标准化组织的ISO 216定义了今日世界上大多数国家所使用纸张尺寸的国际标准。

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[2321] Low-Background Metal

Published on June 17, 2020June 20, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:The only effect on the history books were a few confusing accounts of something called ‘Greek fire.’

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2321/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2321:_Low-Background_Metal

低本底辐射钢

[2320] Millennium Problems

Published on June 15, 2020June 20, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:The hard part about opening a hole in the proof of the Poincar茅 conjecture is that Grigori Perelman will come out of retirement to try to fix it by drawing a loop around the hole and contracting it to a point.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2320/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2320:_Millennium_Problems