@simple@lemm.ee to Videos@lemmy.world • 7 months agoThe SAT Question Everyone Got Wrongwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down123 cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foo
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minus-square@BugFinder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink15•7 months agoI bet you would have discovered gravity first if only the apple fell on your head instead of pesky Newton
minus-square@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoLots of people saw gravity in action, Newton figured out the equation.
minus-squareDeceptichumlinkfedilink2•7 months agoI don’t think that’s a brag. Assuming they did what I did, they saw it and went ‘no fucking idea’ and visualised the wheel rotating and counting the rotations seen. The smart people stuff is the trying to do the radius shit.
minus-square@YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoCorrect, I wouldn’t have tried to apply a math equation, I would mentally roll it and count to get the answer. Nothing impressive about that.
I bet you would have discovered gravity first if only the apple fell on your head instead of pesky Newton
Lots of people saw gravity in action, Newton figured out the equation.
I don’t think that’s a brag.
Assuming they did what I did, they saw it and went ‘no fucking idea’ and visualised the wheel rotating and counting the rotations seen.
The smart people stuff is the trying to do the radius shit.
Correct, I wouldn’t have tried to apply a math equation, I would mentally roll it and count to get the answer. Nothing impressive about that.