Many Cheerful Facts about the Square of the Hypotenuse
Background Noise: Something Random
Last Visited:what does google have to say about 3-4-5 triangles?
Random Thought: so nice, so sweet, so sincere, so terribly terribly wrong.
Mood: love thine inner geek
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
~ Pirates of Penzance, Guilbert and Sullivan
Take a good look at the picture below:
It's a joke :) really. Now, the first time i saw this my mouth raced my brain to say "5! 5! the answer is 5!" since i've been dutifully programmed to recognize the standardized test question about 3-4-5 triangles, but after i got over that part though i noticed the joke :) It's cute... reminded me of the Physics exam question about proving whether Hell was endothermic or exothermic. Since the place i saw this was a blog post with a link to a few comments i followed the comments link figuring that like-minded math geeks (or traumatised high school students) would have posted something cutesy and funny.
Oh boy was i wrong.
Well, not really, because the comments are fairly hilarious... fairly tragic, actually, but funny... just not in the way they were intended. I'm not going to link to this blog to protect the potentially innocent. That being said, here's the exchange:
Female, 24: "I so don't get it...I never bleech my hair again...Probably this is why I've stuck with the violin"
Author, Male, 27:"This is a mathmatical problem where you are supposed to take 3cm and times it by 4 cm and divide in half. That's what you do to find the value of X. However, the person who did this took the question literally and "found" X. =)"
Wow. Read it again, it's englishized math, so it might take a second to sink in. Yeah. X = (3 x 4) / 2, i swear that's what he said.
Now, the girl, as much as i hate to admit it is pretty much a given. She's a blonde who can't spell bleach and can't form a coherent sentence. We all know what she's trying to say, and understand how she failed. Actually, she's not that funny ...at least not to this 25 year old blonde female.
This poor guy, though, is so sincere about explaining the joke to the definition of the dumb blonde. Most people i've shown this too have tried to cut the guy some slack in some way or another. "Well, he's close to the right answer," or "maybe he's making a joke?" they say. But i'm afraid, that no, this guy really just got the answer wrong.
X = 5.
a2 + b2 = c2.
And as much as it annoys me (because i've screwed up my share of math problems,) close only counts in horeshoes.
Expression:
Last Visited:what does google have to say about 3-4-5 triangles?
Random Thought: so nice, so sweet, so sincere, so terribly terribly wrong.
Mood: love thine inner geek
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
~ Pirates of Penzance, Guilbert and Sullivan
Take a good look at the picture below:
It's a joke :) really. Now, the first time i saw this my mouth raced my brain to say "5! 5! the answer is 5!" since i've been dutifully programmed to recognize the standardized test question about 3-4-5 triangles, but after i got over that part though i noticed the joke :) It's cute... reminded me of the Physics exam question about proving whether Hell was endothermic or exothermic. Since the place i saw this was a blog post with a link to a few comments i followed the comments link figuring that like-minded math geeks (or traumatised high school students) would have posted something cutesy and funny.
Oh boy was i wrong.
Well, not really, because the comments are fairly hilarious... fairly tragic, actually, but funny... just not in the way they were intended. I'm not going to link to this blog to protect the potentially innocent. That being said, here's the exchange:
Female, 24: "I so don't get it...I never bleech my hair again...Probably this is why I've stuck with the violin"
Author, Male, 27:"This is a mathmatical problem where you are supposed to take 3cm and times it by 4 cm and divide in half. That's what you do to find the value of X. However, the person who did this took the question literally and "found" X. =)"
Wow. Read it again, it's englishized math, so it might take a second to sink in. Yeah. X = (3 x 4) / 2, i swear that's what he said.
Now, the girl, as much as i hate to admit it is pretty much a given. She's a blonde who can't spell bleach and can't form a coherent sentence. We all know what she's trying to say, and understand how she failed. Actually, she's not that funny ...at least not to this 25 year old blonde female.
This poor guy, though, is so sincere about explaining the joke to the definition of the dumb blonde. Most people i've shown this too have tried to cut the guy some slack in some way or another. "Well, he's close to the right answer," or "maybe he's making a joke?" they say. But i'm afraid, that no, this guy really just got the answer wrong.
X = 5.
a2 + b2 = c2.
And as much as it annoys me (because i've screwed up my share of math problems,) close only counts in horeshoes.
Expression:
posted by Jane at 11:39:00 AM
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