• Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I hated pictures like this in school. The numbers are just slapped on an inaccurate image and somehow they expect people to ignore the obvious right triangles and just focus on the math part of it.

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      3 months ago

      If the student eventually does geometry for money, they’ll discover that customer CAD files invariably have some bizarre error like this.

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Fun fact: In Turkey’s university admittance exam, all angles have to be absolutely accurate, and measurements have to be scaled down perfectly to the visible shape in a geometry question.