Pondering an Artist's Perplexing Tribute to the Pythagorean Theorem

Re:Pondering an Artist's Perplexing Tribute to the Pythagore... by gerdesj on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:08PM (#40018563)

The piccie has nuts at unit lengths and the first line of the article after the very short intro is:

"The artwork references the idea of relating the lengths of the sides of a 3-4-5 right triangle ..."

How on earth did you get 2-3-4 for a right angled triangle! I blame booze, drugs, a late night or perhaps a standard issue: "off by one" (this is HN after all) ...

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Re:Pondering an Artist's Perplexing Tribute to the Pythagore... by gerdesj on Friday April 12, 2024 @07:36PM (#40018746)

Whoops: "we see a 2-3-4 triangle" in the article

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Re:Pondering an Artist's Perplexing Tribute to the Pythagore... by alephknoll on Friday April 12, 2024 @10:50PM (#40020055)

You can have a 2-3-4 right triangle if you can find the right axioms for it.

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