List of mathematics references

This article attempts to list references specific and common mathematical issues.

Season 2

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (2ACV07)

• While Fry and Amy are in the closet, there are two boxes labelled P and NP. This refers to the P=NP problem

"Raging Bender" (2ACV08)

• In this episode, also in I Dated a Robot, features the theater Loew's ℵ0-Plex. ℵ (aleph) is used in a sequence of numbers to represent the size of infinite sets. Also, the suffix -plex means how many screens in a cinema. In this case, the ℵ would indicate that there is an infinite amount of screens in Loew theater.
  

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"The Problem with Popplers" (2ACV15)

• On the billboard that Leela again crashes, it shows how much Popplers were sold. It says: 3.8 x 10^10 popplers sold. That number is the average distance from the Earth to the Moon (measured in centimetres).

Comics

"The Bender You Say"

• There is a game show asking "What's the last digit of π?", and the man answers 7. The thing is, π is an irrational number, it doesn't end.

Recurring

"Channel √2 News"

While talking of irrational numbers, the √2 in Channel √2 News an irrational number itself, which means (possibly) that there are root signs on remote controls, and more irrational channels out there.

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