• @RunAroundDesertYou
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    401 year ago

    Idk, this really doesn’t have to do anything with Pythagora’s Theorem

    • Transporter Room 3
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      221 year ago

      Beyond the general “hehe funny meme” Some seem to think there’s some kind of math going on in people’s heads other than “shortcut”

      The knowledge of Pythagoras or math doesn’t factor in here at all. Toddlers do this.

      Having the knowledge just gives you fancy words for the resulting coincidental shape.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        Having the knowledge just gives you fancy words for the resulting coincidental shape.

        Isn’t that basically all of physics? Just an abstract concept to describe something that sort of fits the rules we extrapolated from observations so far.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, somebody once explained this to me like

        “even stupid animals go directly at where they want to go”

    • @myslsl
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      41 year ago

      Yeah, true. No Euclidean distances implicit to this problem. Oh, wait…

    • Dessalines
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      31 year ago

      Yeah… this is just “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”

    • @jenny_ball
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      11 year ago

      yea i get the intent but it doesn’t really make sense