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Behold, a square (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 159 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And that the 90 degree angles should be interior angles.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And that polygons should only consist of straight lines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

geodesics

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Take shitposts seriously and point out their obvious errors

-Carl Friedrich Gauss, probably

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

gasp!!! it is c/!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The name of that Gauss?

Ampere

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

c/gatekeeping squares

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

You're no fun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Polar coordinate square?