Student: "Hey, a shortcut! Let me first just walk around the long way so I can measure the length of the other two sides, multiply those lengths by themselves, add them together, and find out how much extra walking I've saved myself by taking the shortcut. Boy, this shortcut sure is saving me a lot of effort. Hooray Pythagoras!"

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just because you do something so crazy fast in your head it seems obvious, doesn't mean you didn't do the thing you did with the thing.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That’s beautiful who said that

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Couldn’t have said it the way he said it better if I said what he said myself.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That guy in that place with the thing that time.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, Lord Nikon.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 years ago

Crash, and...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

FMstrat

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The hypotnuse is shorter than the other two sides combined. That is the usage here though

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"the shortest distance between two points is a straight line" is what is being used here. It forming a triangle is incidental.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

Ah yes some euclidean space