/sci/ - Science & Math

The hypotenuse is not straight. The bottom one bulges out, and the area gained is equal to 1 square.

the red and blue-green triangles do not have the same slope

something hasn't changed in the matrix stop freaking out

2/5 =/= 3/8

/sci/ got it in one post. Someone should post this in other boards and see how they fair.

Start with those fuckers in /lit/. That board was born at the same time as /sci/. A little rivalry is healthy.

>>2152873

You're right. If the ratios of the sides are not identical, then the angle of the hypotenuse has to be different. This one definitely belongs in the Troll Mathematics list.

Damn, some of you people are some kind of steely-eyed mathematicians.

>>2152896
how bout /b/. Bet they'll say shit like "Oh shit the world is coming to an end"

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>>2152864
thats your answer

ok i have seen this stupid thing online so many fucking times that i feel like i can honestly say that if you do not immediately understand how this is possible and what specifically about the yellow and lighter green blocks allows this to happen then you have absolutely no capacity for analytical or critical thinking and you should probably just resign yourself to cleaning bathrooms for the rest of your meager existence.

anyone who has seen this puzzle before knows the answer

If anyone ever shows me this question in real life (it's happened a few times) I just state 'thats not a triangle' and leave it at that

Motas

Ah, Mystery of Time and Space, I see.

>>>/lit/1333395

>>2152952
Well, this was a disappointment

>>2152975
How so?

I know that this because of the second picture is not a triangle, but wouldn't be something like this possible through weak Banach-Tarski theorem ?

Mathfags pls answer, I really wanna know.

>>2153016
Neither of the shapes are triangles dude.

>>2153022
Yeah, sorry brain fart.

but you know what I mean

>>2152857
I remember seeing this on wikipedia, here's an animooted version

bottom triangle's hypotenuse is not straight, it is slightly curved. you can see this by enlarging the image and comparing heights of each triangle at given x values.

>>2153038
it's shame it goes so quickly. after moving the blue triangle into place, it would be obvious whats happening

>>2153048
bingo

oh look this eye trick again

>>2153048
Just watch, the hypothenuse goes under an intersection of the grid at first, then over it.