If you were any good at Geometry, you are far smarter than I. I mean, the square of the hypotenuse and all that? I couldn't get it, and the other thing I couldn't get was what possible use I would ever have in my future career.
At 16, the only future career I envisioned involved me sitting in a radio studio, playing records and cracking jokes and reading used-car commercials, so the only geometry involved there was making sure the records were round, the bosses weren't square, and not getting involved with any triangles with coworkers.
I mean, who am I, Tony Curtis or something?
Even then, there were kids in the class who would have known the answer to the eternal question: Where are you going to get more crust, sauce, cheese and pepperoni - in one 18-inch pizza, or two 12-inch pizzas?
More is more, I would have said, so give me the two 12s please, and add sausage and extra cheese.
But the geometrists in the class, and there were some, would have known that one 18-inch pizza has more pizza surface area than two 12-inch pizzas.
Breaking down the math, the 18-inch pizza covers an area of approximately 254 square inches, while two 12-inch pizzas combined have an area of about 226 square inches.
Proving, once again, that pi are square!
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