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this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick (midwest.social)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also, all numbers are rational, otherwise they do not make sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

what about the number whose square is -1

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Roses are red, Euhler's a hero, e^iπ+1=0

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

You're just imagining it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Someone needs to hit you with a dose of reality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

as far as the rationals are concerned, this is the same as the number whose square is 2. (ℚ(i) and ℚ(√2) are isomorphic as fields.)

what we can gleam from this is that complete rationality can blur the line between what’s real and what’s imaginary

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

But Pythagoras hated triangles with irrational hypotenuses. A triangle with leg lengths of 3 and 4 units? Beautiful. A triangle with two 1 unit legs? Die

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And not a right triangle in sight. I forget, did Pythagoras develop Pythagorean theorem or the law of sines?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bottom right, the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 checker boards forms Pythagorean Triple Triangle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah! I see, you're right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

When it came to taking credit ... he had all the angles covered

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unless the "documenter" wasn't a real person.

The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's really just whose discovery spread the fastest. There have been a few instances in history where parallel discoveries happened, but it got named after the guy who got it popularized fastest.

Plus, the records of the civilization that discovered it were lost for a few millenia. But it's not the first thing that's been rediscovered a few times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Every tryangle...", says man holding a prisma

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That's not a prism, it's a tetrahedron, the most triangular of the solids!