hehe, this made me laugh

[bjaming]

[robosycho]

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Clearly a sign of the under-education in America, that is NOT an isosceles triangle, it looks more like an attempt at equilateral than anything. Domino's corporate should start distributing isosceles triangle templates, or requiring geometry experience. That would be a fun interview: "And what shape is this?"

[Deviant Ollam]

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Clearly a sign of the under-education in America, that is NOT an isosceles triangle, it looks more like an attempt at equilateral than anything. Domino's corporate should start distributing isosceles triangle templates, or requiring geometry experience. That would be a fun interview: "And what shape is this?"

heh, the irony is significant here... feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, but when i was a lad in the schoolhouse, we learned that an equilateral triangle is also isosceles. and isosceles triangle has at least two equal sides... but it can have more.

this is rather like saying "that's no rhombus... it looks like a square to me"

[TheCotMan]

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heh, the irony is significant here... feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, but when i was a lad in the schoolhouse, we learned that an equilateral triangle is also isosceles. and isosceles triangle has at least two equal sides... but it can have more.

this is rather like saying "that's no rhombus... it looks like a square to me"

It doesn't look like a right triangle, isosceles, or equilateral triangle; it looks like a scalar triangle.

And before excessive criticism is considered, even conventional slices of pizza are not triangles, unless you redefine a triangle to allow one "line" to actually be an arc, and no longer a straight line.

From the decomposition of the word, and literal meaning, this may be possible. Tri, meaning three, and angle, meaning, well, angle. ;-) A shape that creates 3 angles and only 3 angles internally might count as a tri-angular shape.

If we take this even further, we could create 3 arcs in such a way as to cause a (new) tri-angle to have well over 180 degrees when summing up all internal angles.

Imagine a Venn diagram with 3 circles that are all equally overlapping (kind of like two lower and one upper ring in the logo for the Olympics.) If you hollow-out the internal connecting structure, you could now see 3 large arcs connecting at points of inflection, and the computation of the angles at these points of inflection could approach 360 degrees as each circle approaches tangent connections with its neighbors. If each neighbor is running exactly at tangent, and the internal framework is removed, you could have a (new) tri-angle with the sum of internal angles approaching 3x360 degrees.

But that would be crazy, wouldn't it?

Besides, in many elementary school books, don't the describe a quality of a triangle as requiring all internal angles summed together equaling 180 degrees?

You could be even crazier, and consider a sphere, and draw 3 points equal distant from each other on the shell of the sphere, and the consider a 3 dimensional arcing to encapsulate a tri-angular shell fragment with even crazier qualities....

They are coming to take me away now. I get some alone time in the happy room. tee-hee. Medication time...

[LosT]

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Hehe Cot, do you *really* want me to step in here?

[TheCotMan]

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Hehe Cot, do you *really* want me to step in here?

Sure! There is enough crazy to go around. Left is down and up is green.

[robosycho]

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That's what I get for not stopping to think. For some reason, the word isosceles only conjures up an image of a tall, skinny triangle. I always did hate geometry... I will agree with scalene though. And Cot, I'm going to say the system is flawed to begin with. Starting with the production process, they only cut it with straight lines, it could be automated to be made perfect and faster... Actually, that was a senior project at school, and the darn thing could cut any number of slices that you wanted, always perfectly through the center (including odd numbers, try getting a perfect cut like THAT from your local pizza joint). Unfortunately, the knife mechanism only had 1 DoF, so they couldn't actually cut funny shapes into the pizza, but I'm sure they could rework it, it was ridiculously simple.

[theprez98]

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heh, the irony is significant here... feel free to correct me if i'm wrong, but when i was a lad in the schoolhouse, we learned that an equilateral triangle is also isosceles. and isosceles triangle has at least two equal sides... but it can have more.

this is rather like saying "that's no rhombus... it looks like a square to me"

I vote for Deviant

Isosceles has two equal sides and two equal angles. While the pizza in question is not perfect, I would say its actually pretty close to being isosceles.

[g3k_]

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this is rather like saying "that's no rhombus... it looks like a square to me"

[Deviant Ollam]

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For some reason, the word isosceles only conjures up an image of a tall, skinny triangle.

now that is interesting (well, not that interesting, but interesting to me in the weird way my mind works) since whenever i think of an isosceles triangle i picture one that is short and squat looking...

... i wonder how much of this phenomenon has to do with initial memories formulated in school, like the first time a teacher or a math book presented you with this definition and an accompanying example image. i'm pretty certain that this is where my mental example image was generated.

[YenTheFirst]

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hmm. I had always differentiated isosceles triangles as "acute" or " obtuse". I suppose you could consider an equilateral triangle an acute isosceles, but for most purposes, I think it would probably be more useful to define isosceles as exactly 2 equal sides/angles, as opposed to at least two.

I wonder if Papa Johns would do any better? I'll have to try that out soon. :)

[Deviant Ollam]

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interestingly, the directions asked for "isosceles triangles" (plural). they could have easily taken the original cuts (which some of us debated as looking rather equilateral) and made a few additional ones...

... thus generating three quite obviously obtuse isosceles pieces within the middle... all borne of the most perfect isosceles triangle of all... the equilateral.

so, would that then be the world's most irregular regular pizza? heh, math and linguistic geeks (to say nothing of food enthusiasts) can make their own humor as to the varied uses of the word "regular" in that assertion.

[TheCotMan]

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...

One of the more efficient uses of most commonly consumed surface area of a pizza using the tools they have available to them in the pizza place would be to cut a pizza into slices (as usual) and then cut the crust portion off in a straight line for each slice.

This would cut out crust, which many people don't eat, and allow for many isosceles triangles on a pizza for many people to eat, and wouldn't be very hard to communicate as a task to the person cutting the pizza into slices.

[renderman]

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One of the more efficient uses of most commonly consumed surface area of a pizza using the tools they have available to them in the pizza place would be to cut a pizza into slices (as usual) and then cut the crust portion off in a straight line for each slice.

This would cut out crust, which many people don't eat, and allow for many isosceles triangles on a pizza for many people to eat, and wouldn't be very hard to communicate as a task to the person cutting the pizza into slices.

I love this forum sometimes. We seem to be able to find intellectual stimulation in anything no matter how insane. Cotman in particular seems to be the best at it. I'm reminded of the post about the plan for the beer bong from the top of the riv: https://forum.defcon.org/showpost.ph...46&postcount=5

[g3k_]

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This thread reminded me of a bash quote:

< billn> so pizza hut has that field in the online order form, for special instructions?
< billn> I put 'driver must beat box.'
< billn> turns out, he could.

scratch that, reverse it: this bash quote reminded me of this thread while I was procrastinating at work.