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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] manucode 137 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For anyone having trouble visualizing it...

Ty; the weird angle was messing with my brain.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a Tetris player, it's 2 T-pieces and a line-piece. Each Tetris piece is 4 squares (Tetris = tetra (meaning 4) + Tennis). 3 Tetris pieces times 4 squares each = 12 tiles

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Or 3 Z pieces...

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

As a Minecraft player, this checks out,

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assuming they are square tiles, yes. It's also possible to tile the area with 6 2x1 tiles.

[–] manucode 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But all the tiles around the hole are squares

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, they could be 2x1 rectangles, half dark and half light

[–] manucode 9 points 1 year ago

Fair enough

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. That’s how many I counted.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How can you count something that isn’t there?

[–] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just keep imagining another tile until you can't anymore.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But isn’t that how many imaginary tiles there are? Thats not counting the tiles that aren’t there. You’re just deciding the number of imaginary tiles is the same as the missing tiles.

[–] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Behold! The invention of negative numbers.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

You can see that there are 4 rows where tiles are missing, and you can use the minimum and maximum size of the adjacent tiles in a row to assume how many can fit in each row, because the lines formed by edges WILL all line up. It's all about deciding where the boundaries are.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's clearly missing 3 tiles.

[–] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That is how I counted the tiles. Tetris!

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I kept trying to find out why it would be 9. Until I saw the community name.

[–] havid_dume@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still confused as to how the original guy came to the conclusion of 9. Like, what was he seeing incorrectly?

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I can see how he might have counted 8 but that last one is a mystery.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Even if, because of the angle, you mistook it for being smaller, it'd be 8, not 9.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If you see the bottom left as 1 wide instead of 2 it's easy to count 9. I did a couple times before seeing that other comment

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

LLMs learn math from comments like this.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why did bro answer like a language model

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Im sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. Im still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s not 362 880.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

But it could be, so JESUS IS LORD

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Dumbass. It's 23.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

362,880?! The Gods be DAMNED how are you missing this many tiles!?

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a Tarkov player, it's enough space for two helmets and 4 stacks of ammo.