Timeline for Is it possible for a physical object to have an irrational length?
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| Jul 24, 2022 at 20:57 | comment | added | nil-uuid | @Mike Dunlavey excuse me for bumping an old answer, but isn't this thought experiment assuming the conclusion already? with 45 degrees being pi/4 radians and all .. | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 19:27 | comment | added | Parth Maske | @Mike Dunlavey What if I had an ant. And if I kindly requested the ant to walk over the hypotenuse, then before completing her journey, where would she put her last step. | |
| Aug 23, 2016 at 17:07 | comment | added | Dan Henderson | @RoundTower alternatively, you could accept that a perfect right angle is possible, but instead argue that you can't achieve a perfectly triangular piece of metal. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 17:33 | history | edited | Mike Dunlavey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2014 at 10:48 | comment | added | dotancohen | @JerrySchirmer: Your last sentence sums up my experience with the fairer sex as well. | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 3:40 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | @RoundTower: you have to exactly fine-tun in order to have a triangle with all three sides rational. Almost every triangle will have at least one irrational side. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 14:48 | comment | added | RoundTower | you also need to be able to assume you can have an object which has a perfect right angle. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 4:30 | comment | added | Nick Anderegg | This seems to be where my whole premise falls apart and I'm not able to communicate my thinking clearly. Basically, what I'm asking is it possible for that hypotenuse to exist. Perhaps the base and height cannot both be equal because then the hypotenuse would be irrational. But otherwise, this make sense. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 1:04 | history | answered | Mike Dunlavey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |