September 1, 2006
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The Meaning Part 2
Now for all my poetry hating, absolute truth believing, environment hating, cold hearted conservative friends:
Pythagorean Theorem:
The Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (A and B) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse (C).
What does this picture mean to you?
Comments (195)
Math is death.
2nd?
Is that art?
Hahaha that crack me up.
stupid cold hearted conservatives.
peace and love forever!
*runs around naked*
yes I am getting better at this!! This means to me that in 10th grade I had the best geometry grade in my class and everyone else had atleast 2 grades behind me…… till dundun duuunn we started theorems. Or maybe it was just the stupid teacher (1st year guy and a jerk) cause I retook the calss and passed with straight A’s!!! yay!
i love the scathing generalizations.
To me this means that I spent too much time lookin’ at the girlies in school instead of paying attention.
Am I not allowed to answer this one because I’m one of those heathen liberal things?
Even if I’m not allowed to answer, I reject your rules! That picture means torture at the hands of mathematics! (Well, I guess it actually means the one problem on the test I’m going to get right, because the Pythagorean Theorem is really easy.)
simple algebra
Either that or someone is just not realizing what the leggos in the picture are for.
It means the square root of A squared plus B squared is equal to C.
By the way, I’m a conservative. We don’t hate the environmnet. We just have no patience for environmentalist whackos.
We conservatives are not cold hearted. We believe in a ‘hand up’ instead of just a ‘hand out’ policy.
We don’t dislike poetry. We’re just not wasting out time in coffee houses listening to beatniks.
lol BB61
whats with these stereotypes? dont make assumptions, you might look like an ass…
I still remember it, but can’t say I’ve used it in all the years since I was introduced. Now it looks like one tipsy eye leaning on another, sitting on a square nose.
do you see a triangle or three squares?
not much. i used magic to pass geometry. OH LOOKY! A TRIANGLE!! =D
And no, I’m not tipsy.
VERY GOOD! YOU’VE DECIPHERED THE MINDBOGGLING CODE OF PATHAGOREAN’S THEORM… i think most people do that by 7th grade.
This should be considered a masterpiece too.
O.o A Triangle you say?
WOW!!!
*tries to make one magicaly appear*
There it is!
There is absolute truth!
WOW, I JUST READ THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS… PEOPLE ARE SERIOUSLY ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION. ARE THEY REALLY THAT DUMB TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT KNOWING PYTHAGOREAN’S THEORM? REALLY SCREW THEM UP AND GIVE THEM THE 3-4-5.
Math will be the end of mankind. Someone will die in a Calculus class. It is THAT boring…
I <3 geometry and algebra. Can we do the quadratic equation next?
it means that i have to stop starring at this picture trying to figure out if the hypotnuse what 2rad3 multiplied by the shortest leg~ and etc…
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! school is starting in less than 4 days..T.T~ *booohoo* imma go cry me a river…~
Dude, math helps people. XD Wow. Well, lookie there! It is a triangle! Ehehe.
it’sa triangle……of squares…..
WHYMUST YOU HURT MY BRAIN AT 3 IN THE MORN?!?!
hey! Badmuthayu!
Im in 8th grade now and I have no fucking clue what this is!
I find it hilarious that after 92 comments in your last entry, only 3 people were insulted by your funny assessment of liberals, and after only 30 comments on here, about 5 people are getting all up in arms about your funny assessment of conservatives.
Jeeze, you Bush-ites! Touchy touchy! There’s this thing called HUMOUR.
nothing — we don’t know any of the angles or lengths, so we can’t deduce any of the rest.
Heeheehee, once again, you make me giggle.
It means you best be straight or things won’t add up.
That picture means that i have enough to drink for the night, because now I am sitting here starring at geometrical shapes with no idea why….and yet, I seem to just want to keep looking at them. Hmmmmmmmmmmm…… <333333333333Rachel
it means the triangle’s largest side makes the largest square
which
i suppose we all know long before this friggen theorem muhahaha
you need sleep, i need sleep.
it’s sad really.
That is very interesting!
I dropped out during sophomore year geometry.
This, I would love to know how to do this, it almost makes sense!
WOW!
Thanks Dan!
I can tell you theories for the emergence of life on earth in primordial soup, if that’s interesting though…
hahah dan.. sometimes, you’re just too much. lol
i had that drilled in my head in highschool. “a squared plus b squared equals c squared.”
i always laughed at the people who didn’tk now what the hell it was.
poetry haters just need to have sex, a long night of sex.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2… this picture tells me that high school was tooooooo long ago for me!
A squared + B squared = C squared
It means it is easy to measure furniture that sits in the corner!
oh, and I would call this truth as opposed to Truth (not that either are absolute!)
“Now for all my poetry hating, absolute truth believing, environment hating, cold hearted conservative friends”
Bite Me!
Ha Ha…I had to say it to someone today.
Well that’s not fair Theologian. You should do your homework by yourself. That’s what it’s for. Practice makes perfect!
Within life there are absolutes. I don’t have to believe them to be true for their truth to stand.
Life does not revolve around us humans, and what we “feel.” Life revolves around absolute truth. Whether we as retched refuses believe that there is a God is real does not change the fact that He is.
Main solution is GC and same colors indicate same area(¥á,¥â)
these are perpect squares
¥ÄABC=¥ÄABD
and ¥ÄABD¡Õ¥ÄEAC (SAS congruence)
so ¥ÄABD=¥ÄEAC=¥ÄEAF
In conclusion ¥ÄABC=¥ÄEAF=(1/2)¥á
Same with the¥â
therefore a2+b2=c2
http://x48.xanga.com/11aa75134963375498414/m51003801.bmp
there is my proof with picture linke
it’s beauty of rationality
geometric art, if you painted that up on canvas, I’m sure it could still be modern art. It shows us mankind’s intimate and inescapable relationship to mathematics. How’s that for pretending to have insight to this.
PS: I’m pretty conservative, but I love art.
That I am glad I went into a non-mathmatically portion of chemistry
Hahaha that crack me up.
stupid cold hearted conservatives.
peace and love forever!
*runs around naked*
Posted 9/1/2006 at 1:20 AM by ANNFUNK
Geometry? That thing last used to pass some tests in highschool and never useful ever again? (Well, I suppose it would possibly have been useful in college, again to pass a couple of tests and make myself look better on paper, if you give a damn and take more than the bare minimum required of you.) To me, it only serves to remind me of how real-world practical I am not to waste valuable space in my brain with shit that nobody cares about anyway. *strips and runs around naked with Miss Funk*
it remind me of math class. and it reminds me of the only assignment i didn’t do horribly on.
52nd?
Woot! I win at life!
At this moment, Pythagorean Theorum means nothing. The squares… they keep splitting up into triangles, and those triangles split. They split again, and again, until they shrink out of sight and, presumably, into infintely smaller triangles.
It’s quite amusing, given that ultimately, the triangle is composed entirely of pixellated squares.
Symmetry…
Now for all my poetry hating : Art is Art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
absolute truth believing: You die, you go somewhere, I know where I am going, do you know where you are going and would you risk eternity to find out you were wrong? If I am wrong, then it does not matter, if a “liberal” is wrong, they have an eternity to regret their mistake.
environment hating: Love the environment, basis of Conservative Christianity is to love the environment. If someone does not love and care for the environment, then they are just a greedy miser rather than a Conservative Christian.
cold hearted conservative friends: Conservatives are not cold hearted. I agree with BB61, Would it be good to give a person stuck and dying in quicksand money or food, or would it be better to help them actually get out?
Image: Uh, been there, done that, not going back.
my ticket to passing or failing a class
Why can’t all math be that easy remember? I prefer statistics and probability though … It’s always interesting when you can calculate your own odds for something.
The area of the biggest square (with side c) is equal to the sum of the areas of the smaller squares.
means that the college board will use this theory frequently and i can guarantee an 800 on my math section if i learn it thoroughly.
And I’m not sure about the other generalizations… but I love math! hehe I love things that are straight-forward like math and grammar.
It means I really hate math and hope I never have to relive geometry, algebra and trig.
It means I’m glad I never have to see the inside of another math class again. My brain is now mush. I can post debits and credits. I can do tax forms. That’s ’nuff.
Yay! Art! (hehe)
a headache
are you trying to make me cry, dan? Math has the ability to bring me to tears on a daily basis. I know how to do this one, but I bet you if I tried I would still get it wrong.
Takes me back. I saw the pic. and new what it was before I even read the text.
it reminds me of when i was in algebra…gosh…i HATED it…but now ive moved on to geometry && next year i’ll be in algebra II…ugh…stoopid math…unless youre an archetect, youre never gonna use pythag…&& im going into law…so..yeah…never gonna use a2(thats an exponent)+b2=c2
Um … you’re really calling making some scathing generalizations here. I may be an engineering major (with an environmental emphasis), but I do appreciate art. And I’m independent. At the risk of being too forward, you’re well on your way to looking like a complete jerk, Dan.
And yes, I do know Pythagorean’s theorem.
-Guru on the Hill
What?!? The scarecrow really did have a brain???
Geometry. Euclidean.
Non Euclidean Geometry haunts my sleep now.
Science Rules !!!!!!!!!
Absolutely Nothing
And, it’s the ‘Mallory Theorem’ to anybody that was in my Geometery class.
Truth, pure unchanging truth to the highest degree. I love this stuff.
Jack shit.
you know I’ve been staring at it for about 10 minutes, and it means nothing to me beyond the formula
probably because I’m not die-hard conservative
It means that threee letters of the alphabet connect! Happy holiday weekend Dan!
BB61 is my hero.
One of the equations that I’ll always remember, to the day I die.
You’re starting to lose it?
The insistence of mankind to inflict themselves on nature results in catastrophic misunderstandings and poopy happenstances.
I too love BB61.
a squared .plus b squared = c squared.
or…c squared – a squared = bsquared
orrrr….
oooohhh lets all go in awe because of my intelligence.
I’m not even sure it the second one was right..
I love math though, which is sad haha lol..
Well, gots to go to chemistry now…
bah I’m pathetic.
that i freggin woke up nad i cant seet hat well
Um, what?
oh noes! I’m a bleeding heart liberal and I have a BA in math! Mathematics can be poetic. And at least it is more clear than poetry…
OMG MATH. a.k.a. happiness. If it were calculus I’d really be happy.
It scares me how much I’m looking forward to my next Calc class.
Oh no..not math…hisssssssss
to me it means I’m totally lost. I totally stunk at math. Spelling too.
this means that if you were to draw perfect squares with the sides of a right triangle the two squares on the legs, when added, wouild have the same area as the square on the hypotenuse. I love math Dan, you should do something like this more often!
I know it’s crazy, but liberals (and us “moderates”) can appreciate mathematics too.
RYC:
Dan, what is wrong with that? You need to stop by my site anyway. It’s been a while and we were supposed to compare World Trade Center reviews.
Oh, while your at it, you might want to check out the comment that I left for go_granny_go that you might want to take a look at. It is on both of our sites (her’s and mine)
The Pythagorean Theroum is my least favroite of them all.
Over and over during Geometry… >_<
only a reminder of the hell that my high school Geometry class was. Although Miss Jones was my favorite teacher.
It screams: “MATH!!!” Which causes me to run the other way.
VERY GOOD! YOU’VE DECIPHERED THE MINDBOGGLING CODE OF PATHAGOREAN’S THEORM… i think most people do that by 7th grade.
Posted 9/1/2006 at 1:29 AM by BadMuthaYu
yeah, and most people learn to spell it by then. even though i’m pretty conservative, the painting below was a lot more interesting than math. i can understand math and i can do (some) math, but that doesn’t mean i have to like it.
Pythagoras was a genius.
Still is.
I represent that remark better than the math.
nothing until there are some numbers added x]
Geomotry sucks, but I know this therom like the back of my hand.
My God is a God of order and perfection…it also reminds of of Mumenschantz…
it means……….. ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, hate math!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If someone had tried to teach me that theorem with that diagram I surely would have had questions:(
Reminds me of stupid high school math. We called it the Piggy Theory though.
That cool triangle will never escape from those three dumb pink squares!
What does this pic mean to me?: the side of a triangle opposite a ninety degree angle is equal to the sum of the square of the two other sides.
Nice to know I retained something from math class!
Whoops I mean the square of the triangle’s side opposite a right angle… ok so maybe I didn’t retain it that well…
A squared + B squared = C
It means that there can be a proportionality to the arrangement of things in the real world that is elegant.
It means I hate math.
I’m going to call a cab.
“What does this picture mean to you?”
Irrelevant for we are in the world of hard facts here, what it means to any individual is unimportant.
Whoa it looks like a monster!
HOLLY SHNIKEYS! THEOLOGIANS HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A BEAST!
it means square mickey mouse
It throws me back to Good Ole Mrs. Heerse math classes!
It reinforces my belief that math is a beautiful thing.
I once used Euclid’s proposition on this to get extra credit for Trig class… happy memories
To me it brings feelings of intense hatred. (I just got back from my first trig exam -_-)
(=
chuckle. stereotypes are funny when no one gets angry.
It’s an easier way to understand how to use the Pythagorean Theorem. My 7th grade teacher use this method when it was introduce to us. Hehehehe.
Math rules all!
it’s good to be square
makes me think of a math problem!!
Sorry, but if most people here know what a pythagoream theorem is for, I’m astounded. Especially conservatives, who tend to not give much of a crap for high education unless it includes the Bible.
This is something I started using in 7th grade. Give ‘em something harder, like Calculus.
That the end shall be reached. Some things must take place even if we don’t like that fact.
This kills all the fun out of doing blocks as a baby.
I suck at math. (o:
That if the two little squares team up, they can take on the big square. Yaaaaaaaaaay!
I’m a conservative, I just hate math.
this picture means school is right around the corner =[.
XOXO,
cG.
It reminds me of my boyfriend and my dad… both are carpenters…
My teacher might’ve mentioned that once or twice.
I might’ve had a test on it. I could hardly remember the bloody thing.
Looks like my math grade isn’t going to be good next year either.
i did a wiki search on this and found out, I dont give a damn.
Way to be unbiased.
To me it means a math class I took last year that I never, EVER would like to go back to.
It also means that school is starting in 8 days! Bah!
I mean.. *6… looks like I need to refresh on my basic mathematics before the first day of advanced algebra.
a face. and mr tressler
it meas taht someone made a horrible attempt at modern art.
Swt
It means 9th grade math, which I skipped quite a lot of.
It means A(squared) + B(squared) = C(squared). Pretty much gives you the measurement of the straight side to a right angle. Works well in every day life for measurements of distance between 2 points directly and indirectly.
Not much.
A2 + B2 = C2
damn it.
I hate math. and I hate xanga
eek. it brings back geometry theorems, postulates, and proofs to my mind. i absolutely despise proofs. eek dan, eek.
to me, this picture means straightforward right answer. the past few years, math has actually been a relief to me because it has a straightforward way to do it and it has a for sure right answer. it also reminds me of the time during ninth grade that my geometry teacher threw a birthday party for pythagorus
It means that I learned that in 5th grade?
seeing as i am one of those art-loving-shakespeare-obbsessing-math-hating-liberals, that picture has no meaning whatsoever. its a stupid thing my math teacher would draw on the board while i scribble heart renching sentences from my latest novel in the back of my notebook….yeah.
It means that I already knew that?
It says that I hate math aaaand that’s pretty much it. A squared + B squared = C squared *shudder*.
Absolute fact.
Algebraic art. Beautiful.
a^2+b^2=c^2
then, to find out what c is,
you take the square root of a^2 + the square root of b^2 = the square root of c^2
i really didn’t like math…but this was easy
Kelly
It means FUCKING LOVE.
The Pythagorean theorem is like… my favorite thing ever.
And hey! Not all us conservative friends are cold hearted. Or poetry hating. The rest is true.
it means i hate math.
A brain freeze.
Math makes up everything, but it can be quite easily ignored.
for having voted for a conservative (twice) you have an awfully bleak outlook on them.
it makes me not want to read your site dan.
And i know that you don’t really care.
But who are you here for if not your readers?
- your very own warm-hearted, absolute-truth KNOWING, environment-appreciating, poetry-writing conservative friend.
A^2 + B^2 = C^2
To me…this means that Im pretty lame because im a senior in highschool and just learning this…I suck at math…but maybe because thats im too liberal and spend too much reading poetry and looking at art.
math is the closest thing to the ultimate art, philosophy, that we have.
I like poetry but it distorts reality it doesn’t enhacne or elucidate it
Thank you for the correct definition for the conservatives.
Well, I have a really good calculus teacher, so it means a lot more to me than I really feel like getting in to on a 3-day weekend.
Mmmm… Math
<3
“Math! Argh!”
leads to trig leads to calc leads to pain
The nightmare of the GRE’s all over again!!
This is one Truth that no matter where you go in this universe, what Beeblebroxian language you say it in, or what sort of eyes and mind you look at it with, will always be True. I’m no lover of Math, but isn’t that a bit like touching the face of God?
ugh idk
It’s a triangle of some kind with squares made from the legs and base.
what does this have to do with conservatives??
As a Christian involved in the performing arts, I am rather amused to find that my belief in absolute truth precludes my ability to appreciate poetry. I would be more interested to know if any of the “no absolute truth” people do not find the Pythagorean Theorem to be ”true for them.”
It means.
Pythagorus was a sadist.
Of course.
wow. that looks like a mummy square, and a daddy square, and a little baby square! and to think ive studied maths at uni
It means something that I can solve (About to go into 9th grade too.)… Just put numbers in A and B OR C and A and I’ll solve it. Just give me a calculator if you use large numbers.
Pre Algebra….
A triangle surrounded by squares – poor triangle!
means that mathematicians have a little too much free time
parts of a taxicab, broken down and shipped in boxes to a peninsula.
It means that 3 squares make a triangle. If squares= conservatives and triangles=liberals, then it means that conservatives are undercover liberals.
::deadpan::
I’m a conservitive and I love poetry, I aslo am an environmentalist… I just don’t belive in other things that liberals are for… I am offended by your stereotyping….
a2+b2=c2… i hate math
an “F”
and I love poetry
it means crap to me.
Math…Uggg.
Aaaah! Math! It burns!
That picture is the starting line in the sickenly long marathon called Algebra.
Boo 8th grade math class.
That’s actually my favorite mathematic subject.
I am in love with the Pythagorean Theorem.
Two small things equal a large thing.
In fact a-squared+b-squared=c-squared…
So two small things inflammed to equal something smaller than each of the inflammed small things, but larger than the two small things.
I tend to believe that where one rule exists, that rule is applicable elsewhere, possibly in a spiritual sense.
You ticked some people off with your stereotypical-ness. Which I think was a joke and that people are overreacting.
However, although not being conservative myself (just a random teenage intellectual wannabe), I gotta say I have no idea where you pulled poetry-hating from (robert frost was a conservative, I think), and while some portion of every group is cold-hearted (I knew a gay person who complains about stereotypes, yet always makes fun of homeless people) I wouldn’t say that all conservatives are cold-hearted (which you cleverly avoided). And also while some people do beleive in absolute truths, those people are scattered amongst the extreme portion of both conservatives and liberals.
As for environment hating, I think that conservative don’t really hate the environment, they just see stupid laws that prevent oil drills to be made in some of the richest portions of america. And they see that these people who save their trees, but kill their FREAKING CHILDREN!!!!!
So, I think the conservatives have this priority system going…humans, money, then trees.
A more accurate stereotype might be warmongering…or stereotypical themselves…
Umm……….It means absolutely nothing to me. In my mind, it’s just some squares and a triangle all stacked together, lol. I hate math……
-KrIsTiN-
It means I have to go to geometry on tuesday.
I HATE GEOMETRY. *dies*
but i do like that theorum.
thumbs up.
It refers to the pythagorean theorum [a squared + b squared = c squared]
[ariana]
It proves the Pythagorean theorem (that a squared plus b squared = c squared, where a and b are the legs of a right triangle and c is the hypotenuse) by using a picture. That’s really all it means to me.
… a 34 on my ACT