What's weirder is that the bottom two are 6 feef apart
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Americans will use anything but metric
I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 10-foof pole.
That made me laugh so hard I woke up my cats.
The correct answer is 2.58 metres.
Or analytical geometry, for that matter.
This actually makes the problem solvable
edit: in 2-D. Even without the typo it was solvable in 3-D.
I'm a little sad nobody has done the correct math and it's been too long for me to do it off the top of my head lol.
A^2+B^2=C^2? What distance are the diagonals if the sides are 6' apart?
6x6 + 6x6 = sqrt72 = 8.49' !
I did it bois. Ty calculator for sqrt72...
Now do the conversion factor from feef to feet!
The diagonal is 6ft. The side is 6 ft. So 6² + 6feef² = 6²
1 feef = 0ft
Now, what's the length of the sides if the diagonals are 6ft?
Thats easy.
6 * 6 = 36
36 = a² + b²
Lets assume a = b
So a² = 18 = b²
a = b = 4,2426406871
What if every initial value is unknown?
Roughly 4.24?
8.49'!~=116699.97'
I am a human, hear me rar.
It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.
*got on his feef
And out of his grave
How many dimensions is that picture though?
It's a tetrahedron, duh
Kid named tetrahedron
The blokes are obviously at different heights, that's all.
how much is a "feef"
1 feef is 12 finches
Why? The diagram is from above and they're shifted in 3 dimensions. Now draw that. I'm not asking. DRAW IT!
If the 6 feet is from head to head, couldn't you flip two people upside down?
Ha. I've always imagined it as six horizontal feet. Assume the heads are on the ground orientation agnostic
Simple: they live in doom
I did the math the diagonal distance is ~8.5Ft
I think it's closer to √72 Ft
Idk I just punched it in and rounded
Oh! come on! How hard is it to social distance in a tetrahedron?
What dimensional space are the people arranging themselves in?
But seriously, this reminds me of a time at my former (FAANG) employer where HR sent out a 40-minute video about not being an asshole and avoiding lawsuits.
12 minutes or so in, they say "as the number of people in a group increases, the number of potential 1:1 interactions increases exponentially." I thought "actually n(n-1)/2 but whatever", and finished the video intending to get on with my life.
My inbox was FULL of engineers who were irate. "HR have proven themselves to be fools!" "I expect the company to never ask me to waste my time on their bullshit again." "Once again non-technical people talking out their asses."
HR sent a global apology for the error, asked everybody to not watch the video while they fixed it, and released a patched version the next day.
HR should have replied with a "this was a test on how not to be an asshole and you've all failed. You must take the whole training again"
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