Considering numbers when it comes to body parts, a body can look kind of wacky if the quantity of that specific body part is greater than the normal number of that body part; or even gruesome if the quantity is less than normal! (YUCK!) Extra body parts on characters technically makes them mutants! Also, some parts of body parts get multiplied number-wise when there's more of the bigger kind of body part! However, if it's not the usual or earthly normal number of smaller body parts, then that character could be an alien from outer space! (Appearance can really mean something sometimes...) We cartoonists have BIG imaginations! Speaking of that word "big", numbers also tell you how big a body part is; however, you're likely to get a non-integer when it comes to size. When it comes to quantity, you usually get an integer! (Especially a positive one! In fact, sometimes, I like to call any real number that's greater than zero(0) a physical number. You understand why, don't you?)
If you add up all the eyes on the smiley faces, it's 21 total!
In fairy tales, there are sometimes 1-eyed monsters called cyclops. If a body part, like an eye, were to sadly be cut off, it would be a horrible sight! In fact, when body parts are cut off, it's called mayhem, which I don't allow to appear in my cartoons. The exception, however, is if the maimed cartoon character has the power to regenerate! (Or at least has a super fixable body!) It's too unfair if that character can't regenerate his/her missing body part. Talk about some sadistic subtraction of body parts!
Graham Cracker at least has a super fixable body, so that Goldie could cook a brand new arm for him! However, in reality, when humans sadly lose body parts, they could get replacements installed into their bodies by professional doctors, but it's still not as good as having the original body part made of flesh & blood that they had since birth. That's why I never let any of my human characters get maimed. Well actually, 1 of my villain characters - Anton Wouldn't - lost his eye, but at least I didn't show the tragic moment. He wears an eye patch to hide that gruesome hole in his face where his eye should be!
Sabrina's face looked wacky with 2 mouths instead of just 1, didn't it? Now that I think about it, there's a character in the Mortal Kombat(tm) video game series that has 4 arms instead of just 2! He may have twice as many arms as normal but at least having multiple body parts has some advantages, in fact, more advantages than the average, earthly normal number of such! Some disadvantages to that are that you're likely to scare potential friends away! On the other hand, you can turn that weakness into a strength by scaring away enemies! (Or annoyingly snobby people) Some cartoon characters may have a greater quantity of 1 specific body part but a smaller quantity of another body part; for example, Gaby Valentine from Accessworld - a cartoon series that I found at DeviantArt.com. She mayn't have any arms, but at least she has 4 legs with hand-like feet that she can easily use for grasping!
Have you seen the Web page entitled: "Counting Helps You Multiply!" yet? You can click on the hyperlink that says: "Something To Remember About Math..." in the final quarter of the Math Section & it'll take you to that Web page. Part of it mentions how several bodies of the same species would have several more of the smaller body parts! It often requires multiplication to calculate how many there are! Although, something else can be calculated, like gaps between toes!
Candy put magenta seperators between her toes & showed off her bare feet with the X-number of hits message printed on each foot sole! (This Website has gotten more than 10,000 hits by now because of its age but thanks again anyway, viewers!) Since 10,000 ÷ 10 = 1,000, what she says in this cartoon makes mathematical sense! In fact, the inverses of functions help you calculate something else important especially when you at least know a quantity! (Or a quality in some cases)
In the earthly normal case, t = 5 & g = 8; I call this the Logic of Toe Seperation Formula! The binomial (t - 1) gets multiplied by 2, the number of feet each earthling human normally has. (Let's try not to think about mayhem too much since it's such an unpleasant subject that can give kids nightmares!) Theoretically, if a character had 4 feet & 5 toes on each foot(the earthly normal quantity), then he/she would have to have 20 toes total but also be able to grasp up to 16 seperators in-between all those toes! In that case, the binomial that I already mentioned gets multiplied by 4 instead of 2; in other words:
Observe how Lady Fingersandtoes' 2 feet get transformed via math in this animation just above.
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