Are you telling me that "you can see this is a triangle" ??! You can see ?? How dear you say that!
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I loved geometry. It made algebra make sense. Plus I had a really awesome geometry teacher. He looked like Shel Silverstein and was super pumped every day to teach math.
I loved geometry. It's the class where I first got experience programming. I just sat in class programming stuff on my calculator not really paying attention. I did fine in the class luckily.
Totally unrelated, but I (30 yo) recently realized I'm almost certainly ADHD. There definitely weren't any identifiable signs before that people should have noticed...
I don't believe in geometry
I'm 6'5
Yes but what if one side is so slightly curved that it's invisible to the naked eye? Then your total angles would be 179.99 degrees and it's not a triangle.
Non-Euclidian horrors beyond comprehension
Commonly known as reality
But isn't a curve just many angles next to one another?
From a calculus perspective, you may be able to define it as infinitely many angles infinitely close to one another, but I don't think that'd be a particularly good definition.
Yes, but infinitely many.
that won't work for yoda, though. for him, there is no triangle. there's just doangle or donotangle.
How have I not heard this before 😆
"Just look at it". Visual proofs are not proofs. They're demonstrations. For a species that is so easily fooled by things we see, visualization cannot be taken as rigorous proof.
Hmm can you prove that
Optical illusions?
... are visual and therefore no proof.
Optical illusions aren't real
Are birds optical illusions?
No, they're government drones
Even philosophy 101 can give you a ton of reasons why looking at it just isn't enough
How Can Triangles Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?
Especially Philosophy 101
In one of my last CS classes, we did proofs and would use "by observation" for this kind of thing.
Equilateral triangle. All three sides are equal length and it has three interior angles that add up to exactly 180 degrees.
"If we can't prove these two triangles are similar while not being congruent, the world is doomed."
"Oh my god. We need a 10th grader with at least a B-average, stat!"