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Behold, a square (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] spankmonkey 155 points 3 months ago (5 children)

As long as we ignore the parallel sides requirement, sure.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 92 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And that the 90 degree angles should be interior angles.

[–] ninja 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And that polygons should only consist of straight lines.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

Yes sure, in Euclidean geometry, but this is clearly keyhole shaped geometry.

[–] rain_worl 1 points 3 months ago

geodesics

[–] wolfpack86 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're also not actually right angles, as the curvature starts departing from the angles origin. They may be approximately 90, down to many many small decimal places, but they are not 90.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's not accurate. If you are measuring the angle of a line intersecting with a curved surface, you measure against the tangent at the point of contact/intersection. It can be and still is exactly 90 degrees.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Take shitposts seriously and point out their obvious errors

-Carl Friedrich Gauss, probably

[–] Eheran 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Science memes is not r/shitposting? I would assume the person is serious when posting here.

[–] rain_worl 4 points 3 months ago

gasp!!! it is c/!!!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

I would assume the person is serious when posting here.

This sounds like a "you" problem

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

The name of that Gauss?

Ampere

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

c/gatekeeping squares

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

You're no fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Polar coordinate square?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember enough from geometry to know this is horseshit and be annoyed at it but not enough to actually prove why

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sides must be straight and parallel two and two.

[–] OldChicoAle 3 points 3 months ago

QED

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What are the 4 sides?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

The black lines

[–] CodexArcanum 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The semi-circle is one side, then the 2 straight edges, and the arc between them is the 4th side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's what I thought. The only way on which this has four sides is if the semi -circle is a side. But if that's the case, then I don't know wha the definition of "side" is

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Knock knock. Do you have a moment to discuss non-euclidean geometry?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

/slams door

[–] affiliate 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it’s homeomorphic to a square, so why not

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

See, you get it

[–] davidagain 2 points 3 months ago

I'll tell you why not! You hippie homeopaths are all the same! Science has scienced the evidence that there's no evidence for homopathic medicines otter than the libido effect.