Are you a bad enough dude...

...to solve geometrical mysteries?◊

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.

That's easy. In fact, it's so ridiculously easy that I'll refrain from answering that ridiculously ridiculous question.

But seriously though, it really is freakin' easy.

edited 25th Jan '12 1:11:03 PM by kay4today

Because they're rearranged in a different way.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

Because the first one was a right triangle and the second one is a wrong triangle.

what tendo said

NO TREE FOR ME (ALSO LOVES HER BOYFRIEND)

I CAN'T SOLVE IT

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It's obviously magic. Duuuh,

TENDO WINS AGAIN

Now, kiss me Aiko.

hey, I saw this in a show.

the answer was " a wizard did it"

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Wrong answer.

Apparently you're not bad dude enough.

"Any sufficiently advanced maths is indistinguishable from magic."?

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.

I used my mad GIMP skills to overlay the two composite triangles◊ for comparison. Even disregarding the missing rectangular chunk, they're not the same. Is that the solution, or just an artifact of the way they're drawn?

I didn't write any of that.

It's not a triangle. A triangle would not have a bend in the middle of the hypothenuse.

Now using Trivialis handle.

But I want to be a good dude, not a bad dude...

Yes, that's about it.

Spoilers: The red triangle is 8 x 3, and the blue triangle is 5 x 2. Their hypotenuses do not have the same inclination, not at all, and neither of the two figures is really a triangle. The first one is concave, while the second one is convex; and the "belly" of the second one makes for the missing chunk

EDIT: Ninja'd

edited 25th Jan '12 1:41:55 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

That's the solution, Meta. They aren't really the same. Just very, very close. Another way to see it is to draw them on gridded paper.

edited 25th Jan '12 1:42:51 PM by Madrugada

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I still don't get it

But I do understand

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I will admit, occasionally I do wonder if Jesus Christ exploited the Banach-Tarski Paradox in order to pull off the multiplication of bread and fish...

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Curses! My plans have been thwarted by CSI-level technology.

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.

OH

I just saw the bend.

This post was thumped by the Eldritch Flyswatter of Horror

"Shit, our candidate is a psychopath. Better replace him with Newt Gingrich."

I don't get these posts... are they really thumped or... huh... I'm confused...

I don't know why, but he self-thumped that post.

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.

B-But why isn't there an edit stain under it? D:

Self thumped, I think. They used to be moderator thumps, too, but they don't use them anymore as they don't convey what is wrong with the posts. With that said, it's better to not self thump, as I (think) it goes to your thump count.

^thump tags trump edit tags, I think.

edited 25th Jan '12 2:16:06 PM by juancarlos

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How do you self thump?

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

[thump] does the trick, I think.

ETA: obviously in double brackets

edited 25th Jan '12 2:26:15 PM by juancarlos

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