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Noke Lieu
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Over-thinking this?
« on: Oct 13th, 2012, 6:52pm » |
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It's cute.
But... A + B resembles Pac-Man, so B reduces to 0.
Which means A doesn't particularly resemble Pac-Man.
Which means the whole thing becomes B...
Which means the graph winks out of existence... just like when PacMan dies... 
Right?
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Re: Over-thinking this?
« Reply #1 on: Oct 14th, 2012, 12:43am » |
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If you look at the pieces separately A (a disc with a wedge missing) looks like Pacman, but B (a wedge) doesn't.
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Re: Over-thinking this?
« Reply #2 on: Oct 14th, 2012, 12:10pm » |
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For me, the whole chart (100%) looks like pac man.
And to say that 65% (for instance) of the chart looks like pac man is a big of a semantic mind twister because it makes it sound as though any subgroup of these 65 percent looks like pac man, just as when you say "65% of the population has brown eyes". And of course if you take ten percent of the chart from a piece of area A, it will look nothing like pac man, unless you slice it in a pac-man-like shape...
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Re: Over-thinking this?
« Reply #3 on: Oct 14th, 2012, 5:31pm » |
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You proved that there does not exist a largest section which looks like pac-man. I am not one to assume A has to be the largest section satisfying that property.
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Re: Over-thinking this?
« Reply #4 on: Oct 15th, 2012, 4:46am » |
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The problem is with the background for the chart - on a different background (or with a different colour for the not-Pacman sector) the full chart wouldn't look like Pacman...
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Re: Over-thinking this?
« Reply #5 on: Oct 15th, 2012, 11:47pm » |
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too funny! but yeah I would have to agree with the OP
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