Geometry Question

[WhiteWolf]

100, cause the pixels will be drawn thus:
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x
xx
x x
x x
x x
xxxxxx
</pre><hr />

Edit: Bah, this looks horrible. The 'code' tag doesn't use non-proportional font like I thought it would...

[WhiteWolf]

This looks better:

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x
xx
x_x
x__x
x___x
x____x
xxxxxxx </pre><hr />

[maurile]

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100

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I think that's right. The diagonal line will be more inches, but not more pixels. (Which is why diagonal lines on a computer aren't as smooth as vertical or horizontal lines. This was a lot more evident on your 1085 TRS-80 than it is on your current computer.)

[just2ska]

clearly the answer is pi because you can't spell pixel without it.

[d10]

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So whats the point? to see if we all passed tenth grade geometry?

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If that was the point, do you think this question would have been posted?

[Orpheus]

It's 100. A pixel is not a unit of distance, like inches. it's an object. As posted above, you can count the number of pixels, and it's 100.

Think of it this way: If there are 100 cars, in 10 toll booth lines of 10 cars each, how many cars are on the "diagonal"? Not 10 sqrt(2) but simply 10. Cars are unitary objects, not units of distance.

Also, 100 cars in a 10x10 grid will only form a geometric square by coincidence (if the lanes are 1 car length wide), and the diagonal of a rectangle is only sqrt(2) times the length of a side if it is a square.

If you prefer, you can think of the pixel "square" as 100 pixel *heights* tall, 100 pixel *widths* wide and 100 pixel *diagonals* along the diagonal. The unit "1 pixel wide" does not necessarily equal the unit "1 pixel tall" (it so happens that on a TV picture, rather than a computer monitor, they ARE different distances), and the unit "1 pixel diagonal" MUST be different from the height and width for any rectangular pixel of nonzero area. [i.e. if the either the height or width were equal to the diagonal, the other measurement would be zero, according to the Pythagorean Theorem]

[fimbulwinter]

the correct answer is actually not within the choices offered


X
XX
XNX
XNNX
XXXXX


fim

[mostsmooth]

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It's 100. A pixel is not a unit of distance, like inches. it's an object. As posted above, you can count the number of pixels, and it's 100.

Think of it this way: If there are 100 cars, in 10 toll booth lines of 10 cars each, how many cars are on the "diagonal"? Not 10 sqrt(2) but simply 10. Cars are unitary objects, not units of distance.

Also, 100 cars in a 10x10 grid will only form a geometric square by coincidence (if the lanes are 1 car length wide), and the diagonal of a rectangle is only sqrt(2) times the length of a side if it is a square.

If you prefer, you can think of the pixel "square" as 100 pixel *heights* tall, 100 pixel *widths* wide and 100 pixel *diagonals* along the diagonal. The unit "1 pixel wide" does not necessarily equal the unit "1 pixel tall" (it so happens that on a TV picture, rather than a computer monitor, they ARE different distances), and the unit "1 pixel diagonal" MUST be different from the height and width for any rectangular pixel of nonzero area. [i.e. if the either the height or width were equal to the diagonal, the other measurement would be zero, according to the Pythagorean Theorem]

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its ~141.

[dr_venkman]

The answer is 100 because I just drew it out on my computer screen. Vertical 100, Horizontal 100. Now draw a line from corner to corner and the computer verifies that this line is 100 pixels long.

TY Microsoft Paint

[jskills]

The square root of 20,000. You have supplied no correct answer to choose from.