[jdjtcagle]

Post HOW this is possible!!!

[Nico]

Don't ask, but i's cool nonetheless.
Gonna post that on another forum

[Fractux]

Intersting.

[Ghostavo]

I tried to explain this problem like a hundred times to my class mates and they wouldn't believe it. It is proven that that only occures in not-perfect triangles. If you see correctly along the line of the larger side (hypotenuse sp?) you can actually see that they are diferent triangles and that the angles in the red and teal triagles are diferent.

[J3Vr6]

The photo makes sense to me, dunno why you guys think it's so WOW...

[Liberator]

Absolutely.

The red triangle is as tall as the green and orange polygons when they are stacked as show and the green triangle is the same height as the on of the polys.  The photo make perfect sense.

[vyper]

I am not wow-ing. I can clearly see how rearranging those shapes could create such and end result.

[Kazan]

Geometry 101

[mikhael]

Even more basic. More like sixth grade geometry, Kaz.

All anyone has to do is examing the length:height ration of the triangles and *Boom* the whole thing becomes obvious. Didn't we all learn this in elementary school?

[Janos]

MOTAS

[Fineus]

Originally posted by mikhael
All anyone has to do is examing the length:height ration of the triangles and *Boom* the whole thing becomes obvious. Didn't we all learn this in elementary school?

Actually no, which should tell you a lot about the education system in the UK.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Kalfireth

Actually no, which should tell you a lot about the education system in the UK.

jdjtcagle is american


ohhh ****........

[Kazan]

Originally posted by mikhael
Even more basic. More like sixth grade geometry, Kaz.

All anyone has to do is examing the length:height ration of the triangles and *Boom* the whole thing becomes obvious. Didn't we all learn this in elementary school?

Sixth grade geometry = geometry 101

[Lightspeed]

This is soo old and boring

It's no triangle, that's the problem

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Oh. It's this again.
*sigh*

[jdjtcagle]

Ok, another one... are the circles moving

[Petrarch of the VBB]

A bit. The snake one is far better, though.

[Flipside]

hehehe Well, I do know how it's done, it's basic trig, and most people get scared when they look at hypotenuse However, it's still a clever trick and I refuse to pat myself on the back for knowing the answer.

[Rictor]

Alright, call me stupid, but I can't figure it out.

The rise/run of both is exactly the same, as is the area of each individual component, and yet there is a whole square less in one than in the other. It is concievable that the position of the elements could produce this discrepancy, but then the overall area would not be the same.

[Flipside]

Look at the hypotenuse (the longest side), and count how many squares it goes down for across, the dark green part goes down 2 squares for going 5 across. The red part goes down 3 squares for going 8 across. If that were at the same angle as the dark green part, it would go down 3 squares for 7.5 across It's not a triangle, it's a quadrangle with one single very obtuse angle in it