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0 pointstuatoru5y ago0 comments

But sometimes...

My anecdote: a close friend's brother was working as a laborer on a pipeline dig. One day work halted for a couple of hours, during which the construction supervisor and engineer were huddled over some plans.

My friend's brother saunters past, looks over, and says "there's your problem," placing a finger on the plan. Then he walks on.

He had seen a triangle with angles not adding up to 180 degrees. He was right - that's where the problem was.

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whack5y ago· 1 in thread

> He had seen a triangle with angles not adding up to 180 degrees

Genuinely curious. How does one even draw a triangle whose angles don't add up to 180 degrees?

roryokane5y ago

My guess is that the triangle was drawn correctly, but its interior angles had labels like “55°”, and those labels didn't add up to 180°. So the triangle could be constructed differently from intended, depending on which two of the angles the constructors used for reference.

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