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[โ€“] joel_feila@lemmy.world 84 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The interior angles need to be equal ๐Ÿค“

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[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 48 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Oh let's get pedantic!

The curved edges technically have infinite "side".

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

....and a square has four interior 90 degree angles.

...and based on the infinite number of sides for a curved line aspect, the "90 degree" angles would all be +/- the limit as it approaches zero, so never truly 90 degrees but always an infinite fraction away.

[โ€“] olafurp@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, we gonna need more rigor on this one.

"A square is a shape made up of four equally long lines a, b, c, d where a is perpendicular to c and d and parallel to b. Each of these lines meet exactly two other lines at it's ends."

I'm not a mathematician so there might an odd case somewhere in there. Maybe it has to be confined to a shared plane?

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[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Someone knows more calculus than they are letting on...

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey, I failed the highest level of calculus possible. Twice.

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[โ€“] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hey, that's my job!

Also I don't think that's technically the technical classification. I think that sidedness is an attribute that simply doesnt apply to curves.
You can approximate curves with some number of sides, and the approximation gets more accurate as the number approaches infinity, but it doesn't actually have the infinite sides.

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[โ€“] danhab99@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not if this square is a projection of a curved surface

[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If it is a projection, then there are more than two curved sides, which also begs credence to the interpretability of the angles they intersect.

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I'm not a math major, but I always considered it that a square is a special case of rectangle, a rectangle is a special case of parallelogram, and a parallelogram a special case of a quadrilateral, a quadrilateral a special case of a simple polygon.

This shape isn't a polygon, so it cannot be a square.

[โ€“] burgersc12@mander.xyz 55 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Does no one understand this is a joke, talking about parallel lines and mathematical proofs is pointless when its a fucking meme

[โ€“] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not pointless because you can laugh about a joke and then learn something about math.

They don't cancel each other out. They can be at the same place and still work on their own.

[โ€“] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 16 points 6 days ago

I love memes that are funny on their own, but also provide discussion material.

[โ€“] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its wrong though so the joke falls flat

[โ€“] burgersc12@mander.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Didn't realize jokes have to be literally correct

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[โ€“] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 days ago (23 children)

We do understand it's a meme and a joke. Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.

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Or the fun part.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

You're having fun wrong!!1one

These are parallel too. They just look that way because they are project on to the euclidean plain.

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[โ€“] Pulptastic@midwest.social 39 points 6 days ago (6 children)

A square must also have two pairs of parallel sides.

[โ€“] semperverus@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Calculus can find you two pairs of parallel sides, right there on the circle!

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[โ€“] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Rotate the cone towards you.

Now you see this. ๐Ÿคฏ

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[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

ITT: math people going "listen here you little shit"

[โ€“] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I get downvoted for bringing it up, but for fuck's sake you're dumping literally everything into this community regardless of the fit. There are a dozen (I'm estimating) other communities that could benefit from the content you post but you have thus far insisted on only posting here.

Can you at least make the tiniest effort to spread content to other communities that would benefit from the increased views and potential subscriptions?

I shall await the fun police and everything's a meme comments.

[โ€“] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago

At least it's better than endless American politics.

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[โ€“] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

Wrong. This is a definition of a [pizza] + [the extra peperoni from the other slices that got stuck to that slice because the cutting was imperfect]

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[โ€“] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

Not a polygon

[โ€“] taxiiiii@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Diogenes go home.

[โ€“] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Dammit Diogenes, this is why we don't allow you in the geometry class anymore.

[โ€“] Saarth@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Don't the internal angles need to be 90ยฐ? Two of those right angles aren't right angles on the inside.

Tut tut, all these maths books promoting unhealthy square shapes, real squares have curves.

Thanks, I hate it.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Okay, calm down Diogenes

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