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For decades I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.

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[–] username_unavailable 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This guy: keeps records and spends extra time.

Me: Goes back home.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just have to be sure to use the same doors so the string/worldline doesn't get caught.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but if you get spun around inside a room you still have problems

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Three rights make a left. It's entirely possible to have an unbalanced ratio of left to right rotations in a day

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Triangular grid guy: "Guess I'm going back the way I came."

Hexagonal grid guy: "What is left. What is right. This did nothing! Nothing!"

Guy on Penrose tiling: "Get me out of here!"

(In before: "You have the first two the wrong way around." Not if they're walking the edges.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you are doing that by car, then the cloverleaf will add to your spin, not cancel it out.