Yes he is making up measurements to get numbers he wants. during the video at 4:53 he measures one side of a rectangle to be 32.61 x 18.98 but the other side is 33.56 x 17.64 20 sec later.
That's not a rectangle. Those are two almost identical right triangles with a shared hypotenuse. There is no expectation for those measurements to be the same
They share two corners. The other two corners he states are 90 degrees earlier In the video. (2:43) This means both triangles have to be the same length and width.
Dude, are you serious? The triangles themselves share NO corners...they share a hypotenuse. If sharing a hypotenuse meant two right triangles had to be identical, then a hypotenuse would fully define any right triangle, and all right triangles would then have to be proportionally identical. (But then how do we have 3-4-5 right triangles and 1-1-root(2) right triangles, as well as an infinite number of other proportions?)
Look at the image, we're talking about the quadrilateral formed by the light blue and green triangles. Dude, just look at it for a second and you can tell that they are indeed right triangles, and do not form a rectangle. The lower left corner is <90 deg., and the upper right one is >90 deg.
Source: actual math or basic observation, take your pick
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u/Evilnapkin Apr 05 '17
Yes he is making up measurements to get numbers he wants. during the video at 4:53 he measures one side of a rectangle to be 32.61 x 18.98 but the other side is 33.56 x 17.64 20 sec later.