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[-] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago

And that the 90 degree angles should be interior angles.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

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] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

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