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Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world 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!"
125 6 Replyfmstrat @lemmy.nowsci.com 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.
49 7 Replylars @lemmy.sdf.org That’s beautiful who said that
25 0 Replydanc4498 @lemmy.world Couldn’t have said it the way he said it better if I said what he said myself.
15 0 Replyfmstrat @lemmy.nowsci.com That guy in that place with the thing that time.
9 0 Replymindbleach @sh.itjust.works Oh, Lord Nikon.
3 0 Replyfmstrat @lemmy.nowsci.com Crash, and...
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Anticorp @lemmy.world FMstrat
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mexicancartel @lemmy.dbzer0.com The hypotnuse is shorter than the other two sides combined. That is the usage here though
28 7 ReplyCileTheSane @lemmy.ca
"the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" is what is being used here. It forming a triangle is incidental.
58 4 Replymexicancartel @lemmy.dbzer0.com Ah yes some euclidean space
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