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CrownRoyal   United States. Feb 05 2016 09:53. Posts 11385
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Here's the problem:

You're drawing a pythagorean triangle for a group of aliens who just landed in your back yard to demonstrate human cognitive capability. Using only whole numbers, what's the smallest number you can put on each side of the triangle to fulfill a^2+b^2=c^2 ?

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CrownRoyal   United States. Feb 05 2016 10:08. Posts 11385

edit - made my post lame.

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Romm3l   Germany. Feb 05 2016 11:22. Posts 285

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_triple 345

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CrownRoyal   United States. Feb 05 2016 13:43. Posts 11385

yeah, i googled it after i posted and found out i actually had the 2nd set of possible numbers and missed the first set.

lol

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TheHuHu3   United States. Feb 05 2016 13:56. Posts 5544

Whatever drugs you're on, sign me up.

TheHuHu4 coming soon :) 

blackjacki2   United States. Feb 05 2016 14:53. Posts 2582

how have you heard of the pythagorean theorem but never heard of a 3-4-5 triangle?


cariadon   Estonia. Feb 05 2016 15:02. Posts 4019

x-files inspired?


Emi   France. Feb 05 2016 15:33. Posts 280

345 is very well know in masonry, because the ratio is always the same. all people working in construction used to know this ratio by hearth, because it always work with this ratio

for example 6-8-10 is a Pythagorean triangle as well, as is 9-12-15 and so on.

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Santafairy   Korea (South). Feb 06 2016 02:13. Posts 2233


  On February 05 2016 13:53 blackjacki2 wrote:
how have you heard of the pythagorean theorem but never heard of a 3-4-5 triangle?

It seems to be not very profitable in the long run to play those kind of hands. - Gus Hansen 

Spitfiree   Bulgaria. Feb 06 2016 20:24. Posts 9634


  On February 05 2016 12:56 TheHuHu3 wrote:
Whatever drugs you're on, sign me up.



Even though trying to communicate through math seems genius in a way

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fira   United States. Feb 08 2016 03:02. Posts 6345

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Daut    United States. Feb 08 2016 11:31. Posts 8955

I hope for posterity sake that the teacher you had at age 11 found a new line of work.

This is not an insult to you, but really this should be ingrained in your head, and it was a failure of the school system for something so simple to slip through the cracks. But if you enjoyed this, I recommend checking out some basic number theory books and explore the limits of what you can learn.

NewbSaibot: 18 TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Because FUCK YOU, DautLast edit: 08/02/2016 11:32

CrownRoyal   United States. Feb 08 2016 11:46. Posts 11385

Daut, I never really paid much attention to any of my teachers, school was entirely too easy and I could have passed any test laid out in front of me from any class i ever took before I ever took it.

I don't think there's a reason to blame any of my teachers for something I was certainly not interested in hearing. It's not that I didn't enjoy learning it was just that 98% of the time when my teacher was talking I didn't gain anything from hearing it. I was literally doing my brother's gf's homework who was a senior when I was in the 4th grade. My school wasn't exactly hard, I don't imagine growing up in the midwest in a town of farmers and simple ppl was the ideal place to go to school.

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CrownRoyal   United States. Feb 08 2016 11:48. Posts 11385

Also this problem is way too easy when the numbers are small like 3 4 and 5.

It was quite challenging when i skipped over those and found 12 13 5 and assumed that was the smallest set of numbers.

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Bigbobm   United States. Feb 12 2016 03:05. Posts 5511


  On February 08 2016 10:31 Daut wrote:
I hope for posterity sake that the teacher you had at age 11 found a new line of work.

This is not an insult to you, but really this should be ingrained in your head, and it was a failure of the school system for something so simple to slip through the cracks. But if you enjoyed this, I recommend checking out some basic number theory books and explore the limits of what you can learn.



Number theory was probably my favorite undergrad class.

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