sag to [email protected] • 1 year agoI love those pathlemm.eeimagemessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1948arrow-down146
arrow-up1902arrow-down1imageI love those pathlemm.eesag to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink39•1 year agoIdk, this really doesn’t have to do anything with Pythagora’s Theorem
minus-squareTransporter Room 3linkfedilink22•1 year agoBeyond 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.
minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink6•edit-21 year ago 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoYeah, somebody once explained this to me like “even stupid animals go directly at where they want to go”
minus-squareTXLlinkfedilink9•1 year agoIt’s also a straight line between points, so nobody really cares just how much shorter it is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoYeah, true. No Euclidean distances implicit to this problem. Oh, wait…
minus-squareDessalineslinkfedilink3•1 year agoYeah… this is just “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoyea i get the intent but it doesn’t really make sense
Idk, this really doesn’t have to do anything with Pythagora’s Theorem
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.
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.
Yeah, somebody once explained this to me like
“even stupid animals go directly at where they want to go”
The way is sqr(2)=1.4 instead of 2.
It’s also a straight line between points, so nobody really cares just how much shorter it is.
Yeah, it’s just the triangle inequality.
Yeah, true. No Euclidean distances implicit to this problem. Oh, wait…
Yeah… this is just “the shortest distance between two points is a straight line”
yea i get the intent but it doesn’t really make sense