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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This triangle is impossible.

If the distance between B and C is 0, B and C are the same points. If that is the case, the distances between A and B and A and C must be the same.

However, i ≠ 1.

If you want it to be real (hehe) the triangle should be like this:

    C
    | \
|i| |  \ 0
    |   \
    A---B
     |1|

Drawing that on mobile was a pain.

As the other guy said, you cannot have imaginary distances.

Also, you can only use Pythagoras with triangles that have a 90° angle. Nothing in the meme says that there's a 90° angle. As I see it, there are only 0° and 180° angles.

Goodbye, I have to attend other memes to ruin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Context matters. In geometry i is a perfectly cromulent name for a real valued variable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh shit, he used the word cromulent. Every one copy off this guy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

1 • 1 + i • i = 1 + (-1) = 0 = 0 • 0

Pythagoras holds, provided there's a 90° angle at A.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

this is why it is still a theorem