What mathematical term is used to describe the kettle upon the tall stove? Hypotenuse!
I was reading a joke quiz where there were several mathematical terms and cryptic fake definitions. Such as the one in the first paragraph, or ‘Tangent: A professor after a week at the beach’. And one had to match the definition to the word. The ‘tangent’, I found easy. The ‘hypotenuse’ took until everything else was eliminated.
But once everything else was eliminated, then I got it. Like every good puzzle, once you know the answer it is obvious.
So the question that I ask is: Can one simply pretend to know the answer, and then let the ‘aha’ muscles do the work.
As Penny Lane says in Almost Famous: ‘The truth just sounds different’.
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