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if this post gets 9 upvotes i will post again with 3 times as many triangles (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Rainb0wSkeppy@lemmy.world to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] papacraw@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

I doubt it.

you ain't got the Sierpińskis to pull that off

[-] will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

hey wait a minute there are 15 triangles in this image, not 9 >:/

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

wait arent there 17? maybe im taking too many liberties

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 points 1 week ago

I see 19. Are you counting the two large black triangles in the top corners?

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was not! Good eye

edit: I could see an argument that those two triangles are a consequence of the format of the image and are not quite the same as the other 17 which are part of the fractal structure. For example if we drew the central triangles on a large piece of paper then there would only be 17 and not 19

[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

You are correct. The next image wouldn't be able to keep the 3x proportions it implies. Following the same pattern, we went from 5 triangles (the top segment) to 17.