9gag:
How can this be true?: O
Even weird-er.. if you add the areas of all the shapes together (assuming that each square is 1 unit) you would get an area of 32 units. However if you find the area of the entire triangle on top (as one piece), you get 32.5, the bottom? 31.5
weird
I hate you, this is going to bug the fuck out of me.
Can one of you Mathy Mathertons please answer this question now? I won’t be able to work anymore today until it is answered.
Your eye thinks it’s seeing two large triangles made up of four pieces in the top and bottom pictures, but it isn’t. In reality the red and green smaller triangles have slightly different slopes, so that’s actually a four-sided poloygon and not a triangle at all.
In the top pic, they pinch inwards a little, so overall that arrangement takes up less space. In the bottom pic, they bulge outwards a little, so that arrangement takes up more space. The difference in the space taken up by the bulge and pinch is exactly one square, and that creates the gap in the lower picture.
You can see this if you closely examine the background grid along that diagonal line.
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