• Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe
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    5 months ago

    Teacher : draw a triangle with sides of length 1 inch, 2 inches and 3 inches

    Kid : but you can’t do that. You get a 3 inch line. Other students proceed to draw skinny triangles.

    Teacher : you’re wrong Kid. Everybody else can do it, what’s your problem?

    True story.

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      5 months ago

      You can’t draw a right triangle with those lengths, but you can draw A triangle with those sides.

      Well I’m an idiot. Hey wait what if you add a 4th dimensional axis? Was this children’s school perhaps in 4 dimensional space?