• callyral
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    What’s weirder is that the bottom two are 6 feef apart

        • @ponfriend
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          Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn’t catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

      • @eestileib
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        We use decimal inches in machine shops, that’s a metric system.

        SI though, that’s what gets people mad.

        • @[email protected]
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          Except for some reason you didn’t come up with your own units for:

          • electric potential difference
          • electric charge
          • electric current
          • resistance
          • capacitance
          • inductance
          • magnetic flux
          • amount of substance
          • radioactivity
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              It’s not compatible with their other units. E.g. 1 tesla = 1 Ns/Cm, but imperial uses poundfeet instead of newtons and feet instead of meters. Dimensional analysis with incompatible units is folly.

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      This actually makes the problem solvable

      edit: in 2-D. Even without the typo it was solvable in 3-D.

  • @eestileib
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    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.

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    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.

    A2+B2=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…

  • Kokesh
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    It is SO HORRIBLE Stephen Hawking got on his feet.

    • @jxk
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      Let’s do the math. Let’s name the points A B C D, where A and D are separated by 6 feef, and all other point pairs by 6 feet. There fore, ABC and BCD are equilateral triangles of side length 6 feet. This leaves two possibilities for the distance between A and D: either they are the same point, or their distance is twice the height of an equilateral triangle with 6 feet side. Since A and D are clearly distinct, we’ll go with the latter. That makes the distance AD to be equal to 6 feet times the square root of three, giving a value of sqrt(3) feet for one feef.

  • Sagrotan
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    1211 months ago

    Why? The diagram is from above and they’re shifted in 3 dimensions. Now draw that. I’m not asking. DRAW IT!

    • @[email protected]
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      Ha. I’ve always imagined it as six horizontal feet. Assume the heads are on the ground orientation agnostic

    • @[email protected]
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      Dang you must be part llama. I don’t disagree though. I actually enjoyed not being very close to people bc they be nasty. Even before COVID haha