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25,762 chatty comments by "daVinci1980"
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 11:10am PDT Have you not done any math in physics or chemistry? Scalars don't need units. For example, if I scale the vector (i,j,k) = (3, 6, 2) by 7....
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:55am PDT Because when you draw a circle, you use a compass and set a radius then draw the circle.
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:49am PDT The human brain doesn't miss this, but if you phrase an ambiguous question the human brain will fill in the details with the best available...
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:46am PDT He was convincing enough to me in Gilbert Grape (also the first movie I saw him in) that I thought he was actually mildly mentally retarded.
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:39am PDT Make it even easier. If I give you graph paper and a compass but no ruler or calculator and I tell you to double the size, I'm pretty sure you're...
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:36am PDT Units are the core of the problem. I've explained this twice. Electroly has explained it. paulatreus explained it. SqueegyTBS explained it....
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:32am PDT I think Leo gets a bad rap basically because he goes back and forth between popcorn flicks and pieces of serious drama (like "What's Eating Gilbert...
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:29am PDT Isn't that what happened in the OP? 36/2 ~= 16
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:25am PDT Maybe you just have a tiny penis! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrbuRI4IhMQ
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:24am PDT I think they'd double one dimension only, unless you told them that it had to be congruent afterwards.
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:23am PDT Right, but if you shade the inside, that's area. That's all I was getting at. And I failed spectacularly and hilariously. This is what happens...
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:21am PDT It got nuked after the fact. You can search my comment history from MD yesterday for a link to the nuked thread.
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:17am PDT radius area self fail!
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:16am PDT circle -> radius
- Posted Jul 07, 2010 10:12am PDT Because diameter is the easiest thing to double.
