this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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Confidently Incorrect

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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 117 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For anyone having trouble visualizing it...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Ty; the weird angle was messing with my brain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Or 3 Z pieces...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As a Minecraft player, this checks out,

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But all the tiles around the hole are squares

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. That’s how many I counted.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How can you count something that isn’t there?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Behold! The invention of negative numbers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's clearly missing 3 tiles.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That is how I counted the tiles. Tetris!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

LLMs learn math from comments like this.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

why did bro answer like a language model

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s not 362 880.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

But it could be, so JESUS IS LORD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dumbass. It's 23.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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