..... a 50 pence piece?
Without looking at one, or looking it up/googleing it.
a) Pentagon
b) Hexagon
c) Heptagon
The reason I ask is because my son had to draw shapes for his homework and write their names next to them. We got him to draw around a fifty pence piece and write one of the above answers next to it - but the bloody teacher has marked it wrong (even though he was right - we got him to look it up in at check it in a dictionary ffs!).
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It has seven sides (well, nine if you include the 'heads' and 'tails'), so that makes it a heptagon ..... but ....
... the reason your son's teacher has marked it wrong is that a true heptagon has seven straight sides. Those on the 50p piece are curved.
Pedantic? Teachers?
Maybe
Nope, a 50p coin is a heptagon. A regular heptagon has seven straight sides. The 50p and 20p coins are curved making them Reuleaux heptagons (but still heptagons).
Us lawyers are more pedantic than teachers
And I believe that I said a 50p piece is a heptagon ... and I then went on to explain why I thought the teacher would have marked it wrong. Perhaps my error was to use the popularist term 'true' rather than the more accurate 'regular' on the basis that one might mean more to readers of this thread than the other.
Looks like I can be even more pedantic than a lawyer.
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The point is that we all seem to agree that it has seven sides and is therefore a heptagon of one description or another. Either way, it certainly isn't a "Hexagon", which is what the silly beetch wrote after crossing out my son's work. This woman is supposed to be teaching my son about all sorts of sh*t, AND SHE CAN'T EVEN COUNT THE SIDES ON A SHAPE PROPERLY.
I tell ya, if I wasn't going to be a pauper when i get taxed on my missus' child benefit then I would think about private school!
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You didn't let on at that start that she had claimed 'hexagon'. Merely that she had "marked it wrong".
I now reserve the right to change my reply based on this new information.
Maybe it was a shit drawing?
I got some dodgy scores at the moment if you need to draw a rectangle.
The woman just can't count or else, perhaps even worse, she actually thinks that a seven sided shape is a hexagon. Either way, with something as basic as "draw a shape" you'd think she'd know the names of shapes with up to, say, 10 sides and be able to count them properly. It doesn't look good I'm afraid.
Am tempted to "mark" her markings and send it back with a "F - must try harder" comment. I'm sure that would go down well!
As for my missus, I didn't realise you'd met her ali !
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: - )
Believe me , I DID ask - but apparently they were VERY busy. I did think of emailing the fans rep to see if they could help, but forgot that we haven't had one of those for three or four years now - not since that "Doris from Maidstone" bird.
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Bit unfair on Dave Rudd and his time with the Fans' Forum. Forgotten so soon ; - )
Henry knows that I have nothing but undying love for him really.
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One of my client's told me today I was a "god like figure" which I think was a compliment unless he meant I look like Buddha.
Fair enough.
You're only as good as your last Q&A.