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[-] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago

Student: "Hey, a shortcut! Let me first just walk around the long way so I can measure the length of the other two sides, multiply those lengths by themselves, add them together, and find out how much extra walking I've saved myself by taking the shortcut. Boy, this shortcut sure is saving me a lot of effort. Hooray Pythagoras!"

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Just because you do something so crazy fast in your head it seems obvious, doesn't mean you didn't do the thing you did with the thing.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

That’s beautiful who said that

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Couldn’t have said it the way he said it better if I said what he said myself.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That guy in that place with the thing that time.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

The hypotnuse is shorter than the other two sides combined. That is the usage here though

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

"the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" is what is being used here. It forming a triangle is incidental.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ah yes some euclidean space

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