Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 18 days agoKid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshitlemmy.worldimagemessage-square278linkfedilinkarrow-up1978arrow-down129
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minus-squarePlesiohedron@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·17 days agoTeacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches Kid : but you can’t do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles. Teacher : you’re wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what’s your problem? True story.
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-217 days agoYou can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides. Well I’m an idiot. Hey wait what if you add a 4th dimensional axis? Was this children’s school perhaps in 4 dimensional space?
minus-squarederfunkatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoHow? Doesn’t this run afoul of the inequality theorem?
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoThe way it works is I’m actually a moron and am wrong.
minus-squarederfunkatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoHa, fair. I was concerned you were about to drop some non-Euclidean Cthulhu deep-magic on us.
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoBut could he draw red sides with blue ink?
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoIt’d work if it were 3, 4 and 5
Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches
Kid : but you can’t do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.
Teacher : you’re wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what’s your problem?
True story.
You can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides.Well I’m an idiot. Hey wait what if you add a 4th dimensional axis? Was this children’s school perhaps in 4 dimensional space?
How? Doesn’t this run afoul of the inequality theorem?
The way it works is I’m actually a moron and am wrong.
Ha, fair. I was concerned you were about to drop some non-Euclidean Cthulhu deep-magic on us.
I mean that DOES sound fun…
But could he draw red sides with blue ink?
It’d work if it were 3, 4 and 5