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[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 119 points 9 months 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!"

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 42 points 9 months 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.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 9 months ago

That’s beautiful who said that

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

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

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 9 months ago

That guy in that place with the thing that time.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago
[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago

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

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 54 points 9 months ago

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

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

Ah yes some euclidean space

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