Proof
by Donna Gagnon
There is you and me and her. Right? Okay. So let’s examine this intelligently.
The area of a triangle can be calculated by using the old formula s = ½ (a + b + c). But there is a new method which requires placing the triangle in an X-Y plane and assigning a set of co-ordinates to each point: therefore, A(X1,Y1), B(X2,Y2), C(X3,Y3). With three equations and six variables, this presents three undetermined variables and infinite sets of solutions. Get the picture?
Hon, it is much simpler to calculate the volume of a sphere. Here, one only need know the dimension of the radius. Thus:
Therefore, if we remove the convex polygon with three segments joining three non-collinear points from the debate and turn our discussion into something more manageable, with softly curved edges and a definable radius, perhaps we will both sleep better at night.
Donna Gagnon writes plays, poetry and short fiction. Her work appears in SmokeLong Quarterly, Smokebox, Rumble, Bewildering Stories, The Fib Review and in Gatto Publishing’s Short StoriEs e-anthology. A collection of interlinking prose poems, Two Double Beds in a Comfort Hotel, appears in New Writings in the Fantastic, edited by John Grant and published by Pendragon Press.