We all know the above title to be true. Unless it’s calculating down and distance, RBIs or batting averages, math and I are not friends.
But tonight. Ah tonight. Tonight I made my high school math teachers proud. Today was a moment of reference that they could use to tell their current students why math is important.
I have been a flurry of moving boxes as of late. Finding apartments, showing my current place, my day job, which is only for another few days…life has been busy. But tonight I finally remembered that I wanted to put my ginormous TV on craigslist because it’s not making the trip to Louisiana.
As I sat down to type my classified ad, I realized that I didn’t know how big the TV actually was. So I thought to myself, self, how will anyone know exactly how big ginormous is? I should really post a size on my ad.
So I pulled out a ruler and measured the screen’s length and height. Then used the ol’ Pythagorean Theorem to find the diagonal measurement. I’m so resourceful.
a2+b2=c2
And I found that ‘ginormous’ is approximately 50 inches.
Jersey J said
Brilliant. And you just learned that all TV screens are measured diagonally.