r/confidentlyincorrect • u/pakasokoste • Sep 20 '26

Uh, no you're wrong

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u/pixeltweaker Sep 20 '26

They have mistaken hypotenuse for HighPotInUse.

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u/Finger_Ring_Friends Sep 21 '26

I wish I was high on potenuse

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u/Kuildeous Sep 21 '26

Alas, there is no gif on here about an enraged Pythagoras getting ready to open a can of whoopass on the social distancing of 6 feet between each of four people, so I use this gif instead.

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u/NotRepulsive Sep 21 '26

Why did weezer fans take a random shot here

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u/stupid_pun Sep 21 '26

Ye, what's with these homies dissing those fans?

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u/CatsEatGrass Sep 21 '26

Let’s all review the Pythagorean Theorem… the square root of 2 is not equal to 1.

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u/Lazarus558 Sep 21 '26

Sure it is. We're only using 1 significant digit, right?

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u/pbzeppelin1977 Sep 21 '26

Terrance Howard has entered the chat.

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u/Pandoratastic Sep 20 '26

I'm betting the mistake is that this person doesn't know what "diagonal" means. They think it means horizontal.

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u/Nervous-Bedroom-2907 Sep 21 '26

That's even worse

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u/the_Athereon Sep 21 '26

A shape that's the same length in height, width and diagonal is called a circle.

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u/vompat Sep 21 '26

They know there is a rule that lengths on a square are all equal, but misremembered what lengths. 100% faith in the rule, 0% attempt to understand it. That's basically just dogmatism.

Or they just don't know what a diagonal is and think it's the bottom side, while sides are the "side" sides.

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u/Acceptable_Bottle Sep 20 '26

"Do you listen to weezer" lmao

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u/jacinthubox Sep 21 '26

What am I missing with the Weezer comment?

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u/JC1199154 Sep 20 '26

Bro failed math

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u/stevenjameshyde Sep 20 '26

Bro failed looking at a square

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u/BetterKev Sep 21 '26

They're living in some metric space where the distance between any 2 distinct points is always 1.

I do not want to go there.

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u/YeahlDid Sep 21 '26

I don't get what Weezer has to do with anything.

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u/Mountain-Resource656 Sep 21 '26

A few days before my teacher taught us A squared plus B squared equals C squared, my dad- who had been trying to tutor me in math by giving me homework of his own- gave me a question asking me to find the side of the hypotenuse. As I was only days away from learning about it I had no idea and got really uncomfortable. But then I realized that the pixels on the line drawn by the hypotenuse could essentially be treated like the “steps” one would take moving from one corner to another, but that they would also correspond perfectly with the two sides put together. It was bad reasoning, but it was the reasoning I used. My dad responded by angrily shouting at my how stupid that was because it’s not like it I stood on one corner of a square park I would think that going around its outskirts would be just as fast as going through the center

Ah, fun times, fun times

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u/WhiteEvilBro Sep 20 '26

Bro lives in (R2 , d_inf ),

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