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this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick (midwest.social)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

what about the number whose square is -1

[–] nomecks 18 points 11 months ago

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

[–] affiliate 1 points 11 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 11 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

[–] elegantgoat1 5 points 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] elegantgoat1 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah! I see, you're right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] EatYouWell 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.

[–] EatYouWell 2 points 11 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.

[–] bi_tux 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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