It should be distanceraptor / time
Otherwise the raptors cancel and you just get velocity.
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Distanceraptor over time equals velociraptor? Sounds like evolution to me.
It tripped, so it became a revolution instead
Good catch, but following that it should actually be displacementraptor / time. Speed is based on distance traveled, velocity is where you started vs where you ended up. If you run complete laps around a track your velocity will be 0 when you're done because your displacement is 0 (start and end points are the same)
Also a good catch.
Speediraptor just sounds silly. Not nearly as scary as velociraptor.
And it should be displaceraptor, dropping the last syllable, otherwise the quotient would be velocityraptor.
I was gonna share this meme, but now it just seems silly with all of these factual errors.
The cumulative pedantry is almost all the fun.
Otherwise the raptors cancel and you just get velocity.
I mean, yes? Weren’t they super fast?
They seemed fast, but it's just because they worked in packs, so the one that got you was there the whole time.
Clever girl.
Nothing personnel, kid.
No, you would get veloci.
Only if you treat it as (distance)(raptor) / (time)(raptor)
Without a direction it is a scalar not a vector, so it is speedraptor.
Right. We need to replace distanceraptor with displacementraptor.
It’s velociraptor in 1D world!
I think you mean:
velociraptor = dpositionraptor/dtimeraptor
Once you come to terms with it in time you will see this meme is just a derivative of the Positionraptor meme.
holds up a tiny box
We can approximate part of a velociraptor as a tiny box, yes it is imperfect to say replace the arm of our velociraptor with a small box, but what if we tried again with tinier boxes?
You would still be unsatisfied with that mimcry of a once pristine velocriaptor illustration but you might be slightly less satisfied this time around assuming you had infinite patience in terms of time.
Now imagine we repeated that experiment on you, slowly replacing more and more of the velociraptor illustration with tinier and tinier boxes... at some point we would reach the limit as of our boxes becoming infinitely small...
STAY WITH ME HERE - I yell at you from within a crazed scientmathist labcoat
We could graph how much your disatisfaction with our tiny box velociraptor rip off decreased as we decreased the size of our tiny boxes we used to immitate the original kickass velociraptor illustration with... and if we extrapolate that out to the most spirit-raptor ultimate culminating moment in infinity in euphoric release of the tiniest boxes you could ever imagine, we can recreate the velociraptor using only tiny box positionraptors and a set of initial conditions that the velociraptor illustration was created with through the magic of CALCULUS.
I look up and realize everybody walked away 15 minutes ago - Damn, wait everybody wasn't enthralled by that stupid overly long math joke?
Timeraptors sound terrifying
I would 100% watch a b-movie named TimeRaptor. Can you just imagine the glory of a time traveling dinosaur?
Velociraptor = positionraptor/time. As written the raptor cancels and you get a scalar not a vector, simply speed.
Edit, there is no operator before the raptor so probably best not to cancel.
Scalar: speedraptor = distanceraptor/ timeraptor
Vector: velociraptor = positionraptor/ timeraptor
It's the delta of the positionraptor.
Maths were a lot harder before Arabic numbers
... Really? Please explain.
Wouldn't the raptor being on both the top and bottom of the division factor out?
It's not "Distance Raptor" or "Time Raptor" or even "Veloci Raptor". It's Distanceraptor. All one word. Or Timeraptor or Velociraptor.
I mean otherwise it would be:
D~~i~~stanc~~eraptor~~
T~~i~~m~~eraptor~~
And that leaves us with:
Dstanc
Tm
What in the Philoso-raptor is going on in these comments?
Velocirapture
The image looks like a Deinonychus to me
Yeah. Velociraptor is much smaller and more bird-like.
it has no feathers, it's not a deinonychus, a velociraptor, or anything closely related to them
it's actually just the sillouette of a random movie monster
True true
Lind of how the USA sets tarrifs
Actually it would be more along the lines of classical physics.
speedraptor = distanceraptor/time
velociraptor = distanceraptor/time/time
That's an acceleraptor. Velociraptor = displacemeraptor/time as mentioned above.
aaaahhhhh, indeed. ty