But could he draw red sides with blue ink?
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Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks 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.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It’d work if it were 3, 4 and 5
SippyCup@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
You can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides.
goldfndr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You’re asserting that three colinear line segments, with angles only of 0° and 180°, form a triangle?
SippyCup@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
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.
derfunkatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How? Doesn’t this run afoul of the inequality theorem?
SippyCup@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The way it works is I’m actually a moron and am wrong.
derfunkatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ha, fair. I was concerned you were about to drop some non-Euclidean Cthulhu deep-magic on us.