Ok. We're in math. And I love to prove teachers wrong. Tell me if you agree with me on the following topic.
My teacher tells the class the definition of an angle is:
Two rays who share a common endpoint, called a vertex.
She also says a regular polygon is:
A polygon with congruent sides and angles.
She draws a picture on the board of a "regular hexagon"
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Just imagine thats all closed and congruent. Now, because an angle must have rays, not line segments, I said that's not a regular hexagon because it dosn't have and angles, technically, according to her definition. Those are line segments, not rays, so that's no regular polygon.
Who agrees? Just wondering. There's been many other times I proved a teacher wrong, I just don't feel like typing all of them.
Airjoe
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 Jul 1 2003, 3:12 pm
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I never said I was right, I was basically trying to prove that her definition of an angle was incorrect.
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I prove teachers wrong all day long, i normaly just give up on correcting them. My computer app.s class was horrible about this.
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I'm too "Asleep" to prove any of my teachers wrong... Of course there is always mouthing off to them about something I think should be different but thats a different subject.
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The average computer class teacher is easy to prove wrong. (There are exceptions, of course.) My maths teacher makes stupid mistakes on the board all the time, and we have to correct her. =P
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We had to take this assesment test in computer class on the internet on how we learn. I was supposedly a learner who is impatient and liked to get the facts straight up and first. He said people like me could never learn coding like Basic (visual basic too) C++, and HTML. So far I have been coding preety damn good and I've done a lot of work on webisites (the C++ thing I kind of gave up because of the HTML work. So I would just like to say thanks Mr West for calling me dumb. Freaging a-hole...
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NO MATH FOR MANIACK!!! SUMMER GOOD, SCHOOL BAD!! *runs away crying* How dare you?
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one time I proved my english teacher wrong, he claimed that a rapier is a dagger about 8 inches in length... A rapier is a duelist's sword, about half an inch in diameter, and about three feet long...
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Brama babbled:
...the C++ thing I kind of gave up because of the HTML work... eh? what are you on? C++ and HTML are two completely different things since C++ is a language, and HTML is a document spec... there is no "HTML work" in C++, unless you are creating a web browser, and I kinda doubt you are at that level of programming skill yet. =) | |
I once proved a teacher wrong with the help of my handy Adaptec DirectCD. He has 11 languages under his belt, too. :-)
Teacher (whose name has been witheld to protect the intelligent): You can't write stuff to CD that's already got stuff on! Yes I can! I've got this thing called DirectCD which kinda half closes the write session. IE It doesn't lock the disc. Teacher: Fair enough Classmate (Whose name has been preserved to protect the stupid):Ha! He proved (teacher's name) wrong! Yay. Worlds: He's my favourite teacher, that Mister Ss... *BLAM* I knew that shotgun 'ould come in handy one day. | |
My teacher says I can't learn every well known language, I think I'm doing fairly well!!! I know C++, Some Visual Basics, Java, Javascript! So I say "bite me"
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Buzzyboy wrote:
My teacher says I can't learn every well known language, I think I'm doing fairly well!!! I know C++, Some Visual Basics, Java, Javascript! So I say "bite me" I assume you meant programming languages, rather than spoken languages. =) So how well do you know C++? How many "Visual Basics" do you think there are? Do you know Pascal? What can you tell me about the Standard Template Library? Smart pointers? =P *takes a large chomp* Tasty! =D | |
Knowing "some" about a language does not mean you know that programming language well - far from it in fact. It takes years to become highly proficient in a single programming language, not to mention the time needed to learn programming logic, techniques, and concepts to begin with.
This is the problem with "script kiddies" - wannabe computer programmers or crackers who learn the barest minimum about someone else's code to use it for their own purposes - you often see them in the various programming forums (including BYOND) wondering why the code they scoffed from other people does not work right in their situation, and begs or demands other people to figure out how to fix it. These are *not* programmers by any stretch of the imagination! | |
I know that. What I meant was that I was learning them as a separate rather than together. I'm no where near at that level of programming. Plus at the time I was knew more HTML (still do) than C++, so it was hard to learn a the new thing (C++). I also kind of gave it up because I was impatient.
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Wrong.
An angle can exist between any kind of lines: Infinite lines, rays, or line segments.
An angle examined in the absence of any other figure only has rays (and then only for illustration purposes), but these angles are actually part of a figure.
By your warped attempt to redefine angles, you would make it impossible for any polygon to exist at all, because all polygons are made up of line segments.
(Moral of the story is, if you want to prove the teacher wrong on something, it helps to be right.)
Lummox JR