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| Sir Keleton | May 15 2007, 04:04 PM Post #1 |
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Normally I'm very good at mathematics, but I don't understand this. That very much annoys me.
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| Cooker the Mighty | May 15 2007, 04:41 PM Post #2 |
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the hypotenuses are not really straight ![]() They bend at slightly different angles. 3 / 7 = 0.42857142857142857142857142857143 2 / 5 = 0.4 Have a fun. - Cooker the "Mighty" |
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| Dumble Dwarf | May 15 2007, 04:43 PM Post #3 |
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You assume the two volumes are equal but they are not. They would only be equal if the hypotenuses of the two triangles formed a straight line. I don't know the correct term but I highly suspect the hypotenuse of the triangle isn't a straight line. Try calculating the slopes of the green and yellow hypotenuses and seeing if they are equal. Essentially it's an optical illusion. |
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| Grash | May 15 2007, 08:17 PM Post #4 |
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Try making HUGE shapes out of paper and making that first triangle. You'll notice that that are small gaps. And when you add them up, the emptiness makes a complete square. If you look closely in a magnified image, the first "line" is noticeably crooked. |
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| Klodin | May 15 2007, 09:29 PM Post #5 |
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the yellow and green triangles are switched in the second image. |
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| Dumble Dwarf | May 15 2007, 09:49 PM Post #6 |
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I see Cooker edited his post and calculated the slopes. See? They aren't equal. |
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