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yeah whats wrong (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah. We were making a joke about the complex plane -- you could say that measuring the hypotenuse of a triangle is equivalent to measuring the distance between points |AB| and |AC|𝑖 on the complex plane. That definition actually makes quite a bit of sense, and I think by sheer coincidence it's possible to misunderstand how to do it and wind up with a way of looking at it where the hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides 1 and 𝑖 would work out to exactly 0. Which brings it back into concordance with OP's (also wrong) Pythagorean presentation of it.

It obviously doesn't really work that way, but it's hard to see necessarily anything wrong with it, which makes it a fun math thing.