11 mo. ago • 98%

this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick

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Also, all numbers are rational, otherwise they do not make sense

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- what about the number whose square is -1
  
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  Roses are red, Euhler's a hero, e^iπ+1=0
  
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  You're just imagining it
  
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  as far as the rationals are concerned, this is the same as the number whose square is 2. (ℚ(i) and ℚ(√2) are isomorphic as fields.)
  
  what we can gleam from this is that complete rationality can blur the line between what’s real and what’s imaginary
  
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But Pythagoras hated triangles with irrational hypotenuses. A triangle with leg lengths of 3 and 4 units? Beautiful. A triangle with two 1 unit legs? Die

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And not a right triangle in sight. I forget, did Pythagoras develop Pythagorean theorem or the law of sines?

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- Bottom right, the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 checker boards forms Pythagorean Triple Triangle.
  
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  Oh yeah! I see, you're right.
  
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- When it came to taking credit ... he had all the angles covered
  
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- Well, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.
  
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  Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter
  
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"Every tryangle...", says man holding a prisma

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- That's not a prism, it's a tetrahedron, the most triangular of the solids!
  
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