{"id":568,"date":"2004-05-29T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=568"},"modified":"2006-01-01T12:49:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T16:49:57","slug":"square-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Square root."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span> couple of weeks ago<a href=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/pythagoras.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\" alt=\"sm_pythagoras.jpg\" src=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/sm_pythagoras.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> a colleague asked me if I was good in math and showed me his problem: he (basically) needed to know the length of a hypotenuse of a triangle (both sides are known) and he forgot how to do it. These kind of questions are the easiest ones, and I remember drumming up the solution, that is including the proof. After all, if I remember correctly, this was taught to us when we were age 12.\n<\/p>\n<p>Scary. Why is that? After say 20plus years, the brain just rolled out the Pythagoras Theorem. It didn&#8217;t matter, if I was speaking in half Dutch, half English: the drawing plus the formula where right there. Instantly.\n<\/p>\n<p>There is some magic in math and algebra. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;ll ever use it. But if you use it, after so many years, even the simpliest question with the one solution makes me want to hug a math teacher. You kids better start paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago a colleague asked me if I was good in math and showed me his problem: he (basically) needed to know the length of a hypotenuse of a triangle (both sides are known) and he forgot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}