imagine

[scarlet elk]

right

imagine you have a field with a road around it

[lime lodge]

okay

can ya report

repost

it here

@scarlet elk

[lime lodge]

aight

[scarlet elk]

this is the field

[lime lodge]

yes

[scarlet elk]

imagine the field

[lime lodge]

1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2 = C^2

[scarlet elk]

do you use meters or feet?

[lime lodge]

meters

[scarlet elk]

okay

so the field is lets say

30x40 meters

right?

[lime lodge]

aight

[scarlet elk]

if i want to walk from one edge

[lime lodge]

a is 40 and 30 is B?

[scarlet elk]

to the other edge

it would take me 70 meters

if i walk directly next to the field

right?

[lime lodge]

right

[scarlet elk]

now the question is

how many meters would it be

if i crossed the field diagonally

like this

[lime lodge]

yeah

[scarlet elk]

this is where you can use the pythagorean theorem

[lime lodge]

to find C^2

right?

[scarlet elk]

look at that

you see how the areas add up?

[lime lodge]

i see

4^2

16

[scarlet elk]

now to go from a square

to its width/height

we know for a square

it is l*l or b*b

which is just l² and b²

so to go back to l and b

[lime lodge]

so like, that 4^2

[scarlet elk]

we just take the square root

the square root of 25 is 5

[lime lodge]

w x h is 8?

[scarlet elk]

no

its a square

4x4

[lime lodge]

yes

[scarlet elk]

4^2 = 4x4

[lime lodge]

mb

[scarlet elk]

4^3 = 4x4x4

[lime lodge]

i see

[scarlet elk]

so you see

a^2 is the area

of the square of a

b^2 is the area of the square of b

add them together

and you get c^2 which is the area of the square of c

a^2+b^2=c^2

now you have the area of the square of c

[lime lodge]

ok ok ok

so

[scarlet elk]

but we want its width/height

so we take the square root

[lime lodge]

i think i get it

[scarlet elk]

which is the opposite of squaring (5^2)

sqrt(5^2)=sqrt(25)=5

sqrt(4^2)=sqrt(16)=4

[lime lodge]

hold on so

we found the c

[scarlet elk]

for that triangle here

[lime lodge]

its 25 sq = 5

[scarlet elk]

do it for this one

[scarlet elk]

sqrt 25

[lime lodge]

yeah

[scarlet elk]

25 sq is not sqrt 25

[lime lodge]

no no

what i mean

[scarlet elk]

25 sq = 25^2

[lime lodge]

oh nvm

[scarlet elk]

sq stands for square

sqrt = square root

literally the root of the square

[lime lodge]

ya

[scarlet elk]

which is b or l

sorry im using b

its w in english

w or h

[lime lodge]

aight

[scarlet elk]

or height even

no clue

doesnt matter

[scarlet elk]

so

[lime lodge]

lmao

ya

[scarlet elk]

you see we have everything

except for the diagonal

so 30^2+40^2=c^2

30^2=900

40^2=1600

900+1600=2500

c^2=2500
c=sqrt(2500)=50

[lime lodge]

those are the w and h right?

[scarlet elk]

what is

[lime lodge]

wait nvm

okay i get it

[scarlet elk]

all right

the direction here

is (30,40)

now if i move this in one timestep

[lime lodge]

I see

[scarlet elk]

this would move me 50 meters

this is too much

so we want to only move one meter at a time

[lime lodge]

one final question

[scarlet elk]

so we divide everything by 50

[scarlet elk]

ya

[lime lodge]

A and B, are they the area?

[scarlet elk]

i dont think you are following anything i am saying

a is literally just the name for the width or height of the square

[lime lodge]

ok ok mb

[scarlet elk]

eh??

[lime lodge]

i still understand what you were trying to tell me so dont worry

Okay I think i got it

sorry if i wasted ur time btw

app the help

[lime lodge]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i went back to review what u said

and I understand it

tysm