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minus-squaredrspodlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·6 months ago the Pythagorean theorem is a purely intuitive thing everyone does regularly. Excuse me, what?
minus-squareThordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down5·6 months agoThe first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it.
minus-squaredrspodlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·6 months agoTaking a diagonal shortcut means that you understand a + b > c. That’s a far leap from being able to prove that a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
minus-squareتحريرها كلها ممكنlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·6 months agoIt is if you needed to collect taxes and wanted a way to measure 📐
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoI take it you haven’t read Plato?
Excuse me, what?
The first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it.
Taking a diagonal shortcut means that you understand
a + b > c. That’s a far leap from being able to prove thata^2 + b^2 = c^2.It is if you needed to collect taxes and wanted a way to measure 📐
I take it you haven’t read Plato?