that won’t work for yoda, though. for him, there is no triangle. there’s just doangle or donotangle.
Geometry
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ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
How have I not heard this before 😆
PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I nearly failed geometry because I didn’t understand what my instructor wanted from me.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 10 months ago
“Just look at it”. Visual proofs are not proofs. They’re demonstrations. For a species that is so easily fooled by things we see, visualization cannot be taken as rigorous proof.
Brickardo@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Even philosophy 101 can give you a ton of reasons why looking at it just isn’t enough
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Especially Philosophy 101
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?
venoft@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes but what if one side is so slightly curved that it’s invisible to the naked eye? Then your total angles would be 179.99 degrees and it’s not a triangle.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Non-Euclidian horrors beyond comprehension
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Commonly known as reality
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
But isn’t a curve just many angles next to one another?
Hule@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but infinitely many.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
From a calculus perspective, you may be able to define it as infinitely many angles infinitely close to one another, but I don’t think that’d be a particularly good definition.
sundray@lemmus.org 10 months ago
“If we can’t prove these two triangles are similar while not being congruent, the world is doomed.”
“Oh my god. We need a 10th grader with at least a B-average, stat!”
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 10 months ago
In one of my last CS classes, we did proofs and would use “by observation” for this kind of thing.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I loved geometry. It made algebra make sense. Plus I had a really awesome geometry teacher. He looked like Shel Silverstein and was super pumped every day to teach math.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I loved geometry. It’s the class where I first got experience programming. I just sat in class programming stuff on my calculator not really paying attention. I did fine in the class luckily.
Totally unrelated, but I (30 yo) recently realized I’m almost certainly ADHD. There definitely weren’t any identifiable signs before that people should have noticed…
NutWrench@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Equilateral triangle. All three sides are equal length and it has three interior angles that add up to exactly 180 degrees.
pseudo@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Are you telling me that “you can see this is a triangle” ??! You can see ?? How dear you say that!
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I don’t believe in geometry
I’m 6"5
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You can tell it’s a triangle because of the way it is.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How neat is that??
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yay nostalgia!
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s pretty neat!
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Philomena Cunk proof right there