A Truly Crazy 'Right' Triangle

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[petrsvetnicka]

Cool aproximation! I personally use this one: π = e = 3

[ReformationRamblings]

The betrayal when you said it was just an approximation.

[sophiophile]

You had me excited that there would be some beautiful underlying relationship that made the relationship exact.

[GregBetz]

“I am not a sane person, I am a math teacher” is the most accurate thing I’ve heard

[Jar.in.a.Bottle]

Yes!, we are getting closer and closer to the true 'Pi' and 'e' relationship, which we already know would be very straight forwardly named "Pie" if it is ever found.

[randys]

"I'd rather multiply my final answer by 180/π than sully a calculator by switching from radians to degrees" is a mood

[pastaplatoon]

Bro, that approximation broke my lil heart.

[KaramAlayan]

My teacher : "prove that this is a right triangle"
Me : "its obvious look at it "
Teacher : "no its degrees"

[samparkins]

To clarify to anyone wondering, this triangle has no relationship with
e^i*pi = -1
and is a complete coincidence.

[AB-zkmk]

Him: if you saw this, what would you do with it?
Me: cry

[aritrabiswas]

"I am not a sane person. I am a math teacher."
And I sent it to my math teacher.

[robertstack]

Yes, engineers use these approximations. It was used in the Tacoma Narrows bridge design

[davidgillies]

This is just a coincidence, of course. However, the fact that exp(pi sqrt(163)) is within about 1 part in 10^29 of being an integer is not a coincidence, but a rather deep result in number theory.

[mrildsilva]

Finally, the approximately right angle triangle

[maelhostettler]

Ive actually dug into it by representing f(x) = (4 arctan(x))^4 + (4 arctan(x))^5 - e^(6x) as a power serie...it's stupid but shows that it's an approximation

[tisajokt]

Thought I was losing my mind, no way two transcendental constants would be related in such a way, was so relieved that it was only an approximation!

[SpaceOutlaww]

I paused the video, took the natural log of both sides then realized i have nothing and let the video finish

[madisonlink]

The first thing *I* did was look at it suspiciously and throw it into my calculator to determine that it was 1.7674E-5 off, which is well within the precision limits of my calculator.

[Real_Beaky]

One of those cute little oddity equations

[reinymichel]

Ahhh, the "Approximately Right-Angle-Triangle Theorem" !!