hydroptic@sopuli.xyz to Science MemesEnglish · 23 days agoThis feels wrong. I love it.sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down111
arrow-up1394arrow-down1imageThis feels wrong. I love it.sopuli.xyzhydroptic@sopuli.xyz to Science MemesEnglish · 23 days agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-222 days agoDoesn’t this also imply that i == 1 because CB has zero length, forcing AC and AB to be coincident? That sounds like a disproving contradiction to me.
minus-squarexor@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·22 days agoI think BAC is supposed to be defined as a right-angle, so that AB²+AC²=CB² => AB+1²=0² => AB = √-1 => AB = i
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoI mean, I see that’s how they would have had to get to i, but it’s not a right triangle.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 days agoi is at a right angle (pi/2) to 1 by definition.
Doesn’t this also imply that
i == 1becauseCBhas zero length, forcingACandABto be coincident? That sounds like a disproving contradiction to me.I think BAC is supposed to be defined as a right-angle, so that AB²+AC²=CB²
=> AB+1²=0²
=> AB = √-1
=> AB = i
I mean, I see that’s how they would have had to get to i, but it’s not a right triangle.
i is at a right angle (pi/2) to 1 by definition.