ROFL thread with a "ROFL" in title - Page 746

On November 18 2010 05:41 dnagardi wrote: Show nested quote + On November 17 2010 19:23 dogmeat wrote: where is the trick? i honestly cant find it

you almost trolled me

wp

On November 18 2010 06:07 mnj wrote: Show nested quote + On November 18 2010 05:41 dnagardi wrote:   On November 17 2010 19:23 dogmeat wrote: where is the trick? i honestly cant find it you almost trolled me wp

im actually dead serious. would someone enlighten me?

well im guessing that the problem is in the infinite, the squares will never ever reach a true circle form.

@ lebowski
Perimeter of a circle is 2pi *r which in the case above since d=1 means circle perimeter = pi = 3,14
therefore

pic1 and pic 2 where the square is around the circle are perfectly fine and erverything okay so far. ( nothing funny in this)
pic 3 is okay ,too
pic4 and 5 is where it gets bs..
u cant just do that...trying to "square the circle"
sounds logical at first when u dont have background information

but its proven that it simply does not work that way

i am not good at math ^^ but i remeber we talked about that some years back in " high" school.
As baal said: It may look close to a circle for human eyes if u repeat the process often enough ... but it will actually never be a circle by mathimatical standards !

Its like most other trollface meme
Things that sound logical at first but then as u have some background knowledge u realize it really isnt possible to happen this way by any means

sounds... logical?

background... knowledge?





This is a masterpiece. No matter how you look at it.



edit: once I sliced a cow in half and it turned into a velociraptor. but if you have some background knowledge you realize that what I just told you isn't possible.

http://travalicious.tumblr.com/post/1...hot-topic-started-making-a-shirt-with

I thought this was pretty cool. Go Internet!

here's an example of one:

fucking troll science spoils the lulz but what bugs me in it is that this gazilliongon which looks same as the circle has ca 30% bigger perimeter. the trick is that perimeter doesnt mean shit when it comes to size of thing?

fuck i coped with that on my own and it seems to be a silly problem

There is no trick.

Size isn't relevant.

Pic 5 isn't a circle.

Pic 5 will never be a circle.

There is no trick.


edit: well, pic 5 does contain a circle tho. But that's not relevant either


edit2: Yes it's that simple. You don't have to draw the frickin object to perform the calculations. So it doesn't matter what it looks like to the human eye. It's not a circle.

It's actually harder than you make it seem, every point of the circle is included in some k-th approximation, and each single straight line pointing out converges to 0 length, hence it would seem to be a circle in the end.

Actually this only shows pi<=4, 4 being the limit of your serie. (at each n step, you have circle_perimeter<construction_perimeter=4, but at the limit pi<=4)
If you want to show that pi=4, you would have to construct another serie which would verify at each point , 4<perimeter and this construction converging to the circle (so this time you would have to put your lines inside the circle).

And, pic5 IS a circle. no doubt on it as the area between the circle and the line tends to be 0.

A classic demonstration of the value of pi, is doing almost this but with some polygons.

good troll indeed.

rofl thread =/= math thread stfu

well yeah. Key-word being Approximating.

Still not a circle.


edit: because if it turned into a circle then.. *gasp* you can't use 4 anymore.


edit2: right muhw. what I've been saying.
edit3: and how did daysare nail it? only thing relevant sizewise is that it's so ridiculously small that we can't see it.

It's really hard to tell which one of the responses are actually trolls and which aren't, or whether people are just dumb in general. While Pplusad is correct that it will not be a circle, the argument about imaginary "background information" sounds like he either doesn't know what the "background information" is or is just trolling.

First 5 pictures are all correct and nothing is wrong with these operations. It's the conclusion that is incorrect and none of you appear to be even close. Then again, maybe I was successfully re-trolled into posting this.

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son of a bitch

can't see any of your pics palak