Comments on: xkcd Comic Wedding Cake

By: ritchie

ritchie — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:33:45 +0000

Oh my god! That is the best wedding cake ever. And while I don’t think my wife would’ve let me have it for our wedding she MIGHT let me have it for an anniversary or something. That is awesome, great job!

By: alex

alex — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:14:25 +0000

F(<3) is the spectrum of love. Search for fourier transformation.
d/dx (<3) says how the function "love" changes with "x"…. well, just pronounce "x"

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By: Dani Tess

Dani Tess — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:31:02 +0000

F(<3) is like saying the function of love. I'm not sure what the actual formula is taken from. (I'm only in 10th grade trig! Our functions are a lot simpler. A lot!!) I don't actually know what d/dx is and after some internet research I've seen a few things it might mean that don't make sense (like difference, change, slope, operator). I guess we'll have to get creative. Afterall cos is really cosine not cause. Creativity is central to this design. I'd say d/dx (<3) is trying to say the derivative of love. Kind of like asking what is formed or developed from loving. I say this becasue apparantly d/dx is used to find the derivative of a function y. So taking in those meanings and the meanings provided by hissasa, I'd say this is a pretty adorable comic and cake! "My normal approach is useless here." – perfect for all the math nerds I know! I'm totally printing this out and passing it around in class. (Maybe my teacher will be explain it a little bit better to me!)

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:48:06 +0000

Thanks everyone. I’m blown away at the responses to the xkcd wedding cake! xkcd fans are fantastic…We’ve done thousands of cakes over the years, and never have we had such a huge response to a cake…

By: Alice

Alice — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:41:02 +0000

Amazing! It looks exactly like the comic, including the font and coloring. This is a beautiful cake. Best nerdy cake in the world

By: hissasa

hissasa — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:45:51 +0000

I hope you noticed that it says: sqrt(<3) or the root of love; cos(<3) the cause of love; and [1 0; 0 1]<3 the identity of love.

or maybe I just a huge nerd. Basically, I want this for my wedding.

By: intlulu

intlulu — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:22:52 +0000

And what’s even more fabulous is that he grants the permission for use like this as well, so it’s legally groovy and everything!

By: Julie Dworman

Julie Dworman — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:09:06 +0000

This is awesome! I would love to see someone order a Dinosaur Comics wedding cake too.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:34:32 +0000

Pretty neat!!!

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:25:32 +0000

This cake is made of pure awesome, and further decorated with some win! Great job!