A variation on this may have already been said somewhere in this thread, but this is what my friend Lisa's dad had to say about this (he got his PhD in mathematics from Yale and was an actuary for AIG for 20+ years before retiring well before all the shit hit the fan... like the guy has somewhat limited social skills because his mind is so preoccupied with thinking about math... ala Beautiful Mind just w/o the craziness):
As I was saying on the phone, you can tell, for instance, that the upper large triangle is not really a triangle, if it were the upper right acute angles on each of the green and red little triangles would be the same. But the upper acute angle of the green triangle has a tangent (ratio of opposite to adjacent sides) of 5/2=2.5. The red is 8/3=2.666.
But yea, pretty sure others have said something to that effect already.
|