Mav Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 Some of you have probably seen it already, but I've been thinking on this for the past hour and a half, but how does this work? How does this work?
Shok_Tinoktin Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 It is not a triangle, but a quadrilateral. The slopes of the two triangles forming the top of the pseudo-triangle are not equal. Slope of the red is 3/8, and the slope of the teal is 2/5. The extra unit of area comes here (well, something like this):
Boba Rhett Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 Yes, the so called "hypoteneuse" of a assembled "triangle" is in not a straight line because the slopes of the red and green triangles are not the same. The hole comes from the space taken up by the little sliver of a triangle, as shown in the picture Shok posted.
Mav Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 So that's the trick to it huh? I'm going to take this little triangle trick and show it to my AP Calc teacher and see if he can figure it out... hehehe
General Kenobi Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 Well if counted all the blocks (pretty colors), measured all to within 5,000,000,000 milliacraps and then took into account the theory of relativity with the suns coordinates to Venus and the answer is: Hell I dunno, I just grabbed another MGD and forgot to solve for X? lol
Jeff Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 That is really weird. I guess it makes sense, but it is still weird how that happens.
Bob Lion54 Posted April 21, 2005 Posted April 21, 2005 Originally posted by maverick187 So that's the trick to it huh? I'm going to take this little triangle trick and show it to my AP Calc teacher and see if he can figure it out... hehehe That is pretty cool. I took piece of paper and tried to make one. What can I say? I was bored. By the way, did he figure it out?
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