Crackrabbit's Super Geometry Thread!!!!!

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: whitecloak

HAHA im doing the IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

ahem, blowing yourself?

Ummm no....

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: whitecloak

HAHA im doing the IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

ahem, blowing yourself?

Randal: That's nothing compared to how my cousin Walter died.
Dante: How'd he die?
Randal: He broke his neck.
Dante: That's embarrassing?
Randal: He broke his neck trying to suck his own d!ck.
:Q

 

[silverpig]

Actually, I think it may be possible to trisect an angle with just a compass and straightedge, but you wouldn't be able to do it on a sheet of paper. You'd have to go 3D.

 

[unclebabar]

Alphathree33: Well, hey, you learn something new every day.

You are now sufficiently geeky enough to associate with me.

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: SWirth86

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: SWirth86

Originally posted by: Alphathree33 Ohhhhhhh.... Well, hey, you learn something new every day. No, I never learned that. Now you've given me something interesting to do: write a proof that that actually does bisect the angle. So I'd imagine the difficulty with trisecting comes from the fact that if you are to repeat this process you could divide the angle into quarters or eights but not thirds? Is that correct?

Just repeat it until there are 12 sections.....then 4 sections equal one third Of course, It would look really ugly, and take a while, but it works

12 is not a power of 2 last time I checked.

You are correct. I am stupid.

S'alright. Once in algebra the teacher had on the board,

Ax + By + C = 0

Now, to begin with, I was incredibly annoyed that he wanted to put this on the board in the first place. It's grade 13 algebra, I thought, this is such BS. The guy hadn't challenged me all year.

So anyway, he continues writing and I continue playing sub hunt on my palm pilot. Then I hear him, or at least I was fairly sure I had heard him say, "... and so the x intercept is negative C over B."

Bells and alarms and sirens went off in my head. Woohoo! A chance to make the idiot look like an idiot! So I just looked up and blurted out "Sir, that's wrong".

Now most of the people in this class I had tutored or was tutoring and most of them were my friends. None the less the fact that all of them turned around to look at me at this point was rather surprising.

There's a lengthy pause. He then says, "What's wrong with it?" and makes a gesture at what he has on the board. It says "x-int: -C/A".

I just said, "Oh. Nevermind." and went back to my game.

I'm still not sure if he stealth-nerfed what he had on the board or if I dreamt up the whole thing.

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Actually, I think it may be possible to trisect an angle with just a compass and straightedge, but you wouldn't be able to do it on a sheet of paper. You'd have to go 3D.

... I'd like to see you work with a compass and a straight edge in three dimensions ...

 

[unclebabar]

Originally posted by: jjsole alert: this thread has been hijacked. please proceed to the nearest exits one by one, quietly and peacefully, and no one will get hurt.

LMAO!!

 

[Alphathree33]

Originally posted by: unclebabar
You are now sufficiently geeky enough to associate with me.

I'm sorry but it's the other way around.

 

[silverpig]

Yeah, that's sorta the thing... And I'm still not sure it could be done.

Oh, wait. I think if I could figure out how to do the actual trisection that I'd be able to animate the solution in 3dsmax...