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[What A Waster]

It's f***ing bizarre behaviour. He's so scared that his world might come apart at the seams that he has spent seven entire pages worth of posts avoiding the question and then flat out denying that the most basic mathematical concepts of a tangent and a normal to circle.


Clearly I've gone too fast for you.

Let's start with one less line on the diagram.

If we draw a circle, and then draw a straight line that only just touches the edge of that circle, we call that the "tangent".

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Woah woah woah slow down there Einstein

 

[Nobby]

It's f***ing bizarre behaviour. He's so scared that his world might come apart at the seams that he has spent seven entire pages worth of posts avoiding the question and then flat out denying that the most basic mathematical concepts of a tangent and a normal to circle.


Clearly I've gone too fast for you.

Let's start with one less line on the diagram.

If we draw a circle, and then draw a straight line that only just touches the edge of that circle, we call that the "tangent".

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You've lost me chief. What's a so called straight line?

 

[fyl2u]

Is this one of those "A Mexican with a fishing rod" dingbats?

Woah woah woah slow down there Einstein

You've lost me chief. What's a so called straight line?

Lads, you're not helping.

 

[What A Waster]

You've lost me chief. What's a so called straight line?

Straight lines simply do not exist. Complete fantasy. We only perceive them to be straight due to pressure on the eyeballs caused by the suction generated after a rapid blink

 

[legend7]

If we draw a circle, and then draw a straight line that only just touches the edge of that circle, we call that the "tangent".

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Table etiquette, chopstick on a plate vs chopstick off a plate.

 

[payne]

You've lost me chief. What's a so called straight line?

a straight line does not have to be next to a circle.

 

[legend7]

Lads, you're not helping.

True.
Let's let the fella answer these basic questions one at a time.

 

[payne]

True.
Let's let the fella answer these basic questions one at a time.

but if a line is next to a circle and no human witnesses it did it really happen?

 

[fyl2u]

a straight line does not have to be next to a circle.

There's no such thing as a straight line. Or a circle.

 

[legend7]

There's no such thing as a straight line. Or a circle.

Although a straight line could become a circle if it turned its life around

 

[fyl2u]

Although a straight line could become a circle if it turned its life around

Honestly, when this feller started spouting his nonsense on this thread and we started trying to explain things to him, 200 pages ago, little did I know that his grasp of maths would be so faint that I'd actually have to wait for a reply to find out if he understood what a circle was.

 

[payne]

Although a straight line could become a circle if it turned its life around

you spin me round, right round......well not on this thread

 

[fyl2u]

you spin me round, right round......well not on this thread

And a circle can't fit where a square should be.

 

[payne]

And a circle can't fit where a square should be.

define a square

 

[Yankee Mackem]

And a circle can't fit where a square should be.

Is it not the other way around? Surely a Circle of similar proportions can fit into a square shaped hole, but a square cant fit into a circular hole.

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[payne]

Is it not the other way around? Surely a Circle of similar proportions can fit into a square shaped hole, but a square cant fit into a circular hole.

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circles and squares can't meet under carbon arcs due to pressure density vibrations

 

[legend7]

Honestly, when this feller started spouting his nonsense on this thread and we started trying to explain things to him, 200 pages ago, little did I know that his grasp of maths would be so faint that I'd actually have to wait for a reply to find out if he understood what a circle was.

Wonder why his world is nice and circular and not random cell shaped.
And why is the ice wall just around the outer rim in a lovely circle too.
Aye you're right though it beggars belief.

circles and squares can't meet under carbon arcs due to pressure density vibrations

I heard circles and squares are the same, just like sound and light.
Actually he did say everything you see further away becomes a circle didn't he

 

[What A Waster]

Wonder why his world is nice and circular and not random cell shaped.
And why is the ice wall just around the outer rim in a lovely circle too.
Aye you're right though it beggars belief.

I heard circles and squares are the same, just like sound and light.
Actually he did say everything you see further away becomes a circle didn't he

You'll understand it once you get the diagram

 

[The Snockerty Friddle]

Is it not the other way around? Surely a Circle of similar proportions can fit into a square shaped hole, but a square cant fit into a circular hole.

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[DaveH]

He understands it. Acts like it doesn't make sense comes back with several questions. Outright denial. Look at the post where he said "explain it" about half a dozen times. Putting the focus elsewhere.

You either accept that the lines are a right angle or not. Going round the houses to avoid answering. It's strange behaviour.

You only think a right angle is the corner of a square because that is what you have been schooled into thinking. I understand, I used to think the same as you and it can take a lot to break free of the shackles of society and adapt a stance of alternate thinking.

Now I understand what a right angle is an I can say it is not what they want us to believe.

An angle doesn't have to be some magical way of measuring the direction of two lines. It makes zero sense for that to be the definition and there is absolutely no proof of these so called right angles existing. You have seen Terminator haven't you? Do you think there are killer robots in the future? That would clearly be crazy, so why think that right angles can exist?

All I can say is that we are all greater than right angles but you will no doubt think I'm just being obtuse.

Honestly, when this feller started spouting his nonsense on this thread and we started trying to explain things to him, 200 pages ago, little did I know that his grasp of maths would be so faint that I'd actually have to wait for a reply to find out if he understood what a circle was.

Non-Mexican hats off to you. I think I got a bit of a reputation on these threads for carefully explaining simple things to him, but you have gone simpler than I ever dreamed was needed, stuck with it for longer and still failed.

I'm back to my old conundrum. This can't be real can it? Surely there are not people out there who can use a computer but function thinking like this or lacking this knowledge, it has to be a wind up. But why would someone spend years winding up strangers and even have an account on the Flat Earth forums, describe themselves as a flat earth scientist on there and even have them dismissing his 'musings' as mental? Real or wind up, both are deeply troubling.

And a circle can't fit where a square should be.

That is a bit Extreme