I've recently saw this comic strip:
You may be right, Pythagoras, but everyone’s going to laugh if you call it a “hypotenuse”.
Does "hypotenuse" have a second meaning? What's funny about the word? Is it something about a wrong pronunciation?
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Sign up to join this communityI've recently saw this comic strip:
You may be right, Pythagoras, but everyone’s going to laugh if you call it a “hypotenuse”.
Does "hypotenuse" have a second meaning? What's funny about the word? Is it something about a wrong pronunciation?
I'd have to see the context on the joke, but when I was a teenager in math class we'd laugh about it being "High Pot in Use".