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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 131 points 5 months ago
[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 120 points 5 months ago

For anyone having trouble visualizing it...

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 months ago

Ty; the weird angle was messing with my brain.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As a Tetris player, it's 2 T-pieces and a line-piece. Each Tetris piece is 4 squares (Tetris = tetra (meaning 4) + Tennis). 3 Tetris pieces times 4 squares each = 12 tiles

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Or 3 Z pieces...

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

As a Minecraft player, this checks out,

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago

Assuming they are square tiles, yes. It's also possible to tile the area with 6 2x1 tiles.

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 10 points 5 months ago

But all the tiles around the hole are squares

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

Not necessarily, they could be 2x1 rectangles, half dark and half light

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago

Fair enough

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Yes. That’s how many I counted.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

How can you count something that isn’t there?

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Just keep imagining another tile until you can't anymore.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

But isn’t that how many imaginary tiles there are? Thats not counting the tiles that aren’t there. You’re just deciding the number of imaginary tiles is the same as the missing tiles.

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 months ago

Behold! The invention of negative numbers.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago

You can see that there are 4 rows where tiles are missing, and you can use the minimum and maximum size of the adjacent tiles in a row to assume how many can fit in each row, because the lines formed by edges WILL all line up. It's all about deciding where the boundaries are.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago

It's clearly missing 3 tiles.

[-] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

That is how I counted the tiles. Tetris!

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 38 points 5 months ago

I kept trying to find out why it would be 9. Until I saw the community name.

[-] havid_dume@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

I'm still confused as to how the original guy came to the conclusion of 9. Like, what was he seeing incorrectly?

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I can see how he might have counted 8 but that last one is a mystery.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Even if, because of the angle, you mistook it for being smaller, it'd be 8, not 9.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

If you see the bottom left as 1 wide instead of 2 it's easy to count 9. I did a couple times before seeing that other comment

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago

LLMs learn math from comments like this.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 23 points 5 months ago

why did bro answer like a language model

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Im sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. Im still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago

I’m pretty sure it’s not 362 880.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

But it could be, so JESUS IS LORD

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

Dumbass. It's 23.

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

362,880?! The Gods be DAMNED how are you missing this many tiles!?

[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

As a Tarkov player, it's enough space for two helmets and 4 stacks of ammo.

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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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