Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 29 days agoKid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshitlemmy.worldimagemessage-square282fedilinkarrow-up1988arrow-down131
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minus-squarePlesiohedron@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·28 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-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days agoBut could he draw red sides with blue ink?
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-228 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-squaregoldfndr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days agoYou’re asserting that three colinear line segments, with angles only of 0° and 180°, form a triangle?
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·28 days agoI made a goof. I am factually wrong. I pray we all forget this quickly and for whatever being can grant it to grant mercy upon my mortal self.
minus-squarederfunkatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days agoHow? Doesn’t this run afoul of the inequality theorem?
minus-squareSippyCup@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·28 days agoThe way it works is I’m actually a moron and am wrong.
minus-squarederfunkatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·28 days agoHa, fair. I was concerned you were about to drop some non-Euclidean Cthulhu deep-magic on us.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·28 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.
But could he draw red sides with blue ink?
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?
You’re asserting that three colinear line segments, with angles only of 0° and 180°, form a triangle?
I made a goof. I am factually wrong. I pray we all forget this quickly and for whatever being can grant it to grant mercy upon my mortal self.
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…
It’d work if it were 3, 4 and 5