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| 25 Oct 2015 12:09 PM |
| I've come up with 'infinite' as my answer, but is that really true? Is it possible that the answer is a finite number? If it's something theoretical in geometry, are units really required? And what are units if it's an imaginary plane that doesn't exist in reality? If numbers can be infinitely small, does that mean our triangles are infinitely small? Can something in our mind be infinitely small? What's the smallest image we can imagine in our mind? Is it possible to have something that small? If we think about something really small, don't we usually just imagine it as nothing since once something gets to a certain level of microscopic size, we can no longer see it? But can out minds see it? Can our minds see something that's really, really small without our eyes seeing it because we're imagining it rather than seeing it? |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:10 PM |
| Depends on the size of the square, and the size of the triangles. |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:12 PM |
"Depends on the size of the square, and the size of the triangles."
Yes, and that is why I assumed that the answer would be infinite. I never said that the triangles within needed to take up the whole space of the rectangle, nor did I say that they were incapable of overlapping. Thus, if we drew a diagram of this, we would be continuously adding triangles of different sizes in different locations to the rectangle. The rectangle's size wouldn't be definite, either, however, so how would we know where we are fitting the triangles? So would that mean that one possible rectangle would have more triangles than another, based off of its size? Is that proof that we can have infinities that are bigger than other infinities? |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:16 PM |
| How come when I ask a question or say something it's so much easier for me to wrap my head around the question than it is for me to receive a question being asked of me and wrap my head around it? Is that because when one asks a question they don't necessarily intend to answer it, whereas when one receives a question they are compelled to answer it? Or is it because when one asks a question, they intuitively tie together the right amount of prior knowledge and observations to ask the question and only need to undergo the extra step of answering it, whereas when you receive a question you need to both take in the question and forcefully tie connections to the question and then go through the effort of answering it? |
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Latchie
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:17 PM |
like 7
kill the pig / cut his throat / bash him in |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:17 PM |
is this even a real question
the question lacks dimensions of the square but the size of the square is irrelevant
if you want you can just keep cutting it into smaller triangles as you please
shapes aren't exactly physical objects so what makes something a triangle within a square is left undefined |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:18 PM |
stop ruining the cancer this is not school your post is ruining cancer, and taking over with ebola
Gregor- the forums most troll trashposter ever for your entertainment :) |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:20 PM |
lets see if you give us a square with the size of 4 by 4
you could fit a triangle by 3.9 by 3.9 by 3.9 and then 3.8 by 3.8 by 3.8
and then you could continue by always making it smaller
so it might be infinite |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:20 PM |
"is this even a real question
the question lacks dimensions of the square but the size of the square is irrelevant
if you want you can just keep cutting it into smaller triangles as you please
shapes aren't exactly physical objects so what makes something a triangle within a square is left undefined"
How can a question be real or fake? Being able to be answered does not define a question. |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:21 PM |
| Infinite because the triangles can get smaller inside the triangles. |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:23 PM |
actually it would be infinite.
the square's size is irrelevant, because it would all be proportioned out.
u can keep cutting them smaller and smaller even past when the size is .0000000000000000000000000000000001
so yeah it is infinite |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:24 PM |
but in a way that wouldnt be infinite
if the box was 10000 units and the triangles were like .0000000000000000001 it would be a ridiculously large number of times but it would still technically be not infinite
so unless the box is infinite in size there is some kind of exact number
kill the pig / cut his throat / bash him in |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:26 PM |
minimum 2, maximum infinity
Sorry, my cat typed thatㅤ |
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| 25 Oct 2015 12:28 PM |
"How can a question be real or fake? Being able to be answered does not define a question."
don't play dumb it shouldn't be hard to tell that my question was not whether or not the question had an answer but rather if you were being serious about it when asking it |
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| 25 Oct 2015 06:32 PM |
no, it would be infinite.
remember that lines do not have a size, they appear to but they do not.
now consider this theorem/postulate type thing: if you have a triangle you can make it into two smaller triangles.
that is true, just cut it in half. and it keeps going. even when you have triangles with 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 area and you can still keep going. if you wanted to visualize you would pretty much imagine a filled up square due to all the lines.
but yes, the answer is infinite. |
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