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[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Clearly not a square. Disproves math.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The square root of 3 (tree).

[-] Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Bout tree fiddy

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. That's not a square. It's a rectangle.

Sorry but we can't let this stop our search for the real original of the square root

[-] Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Are you high? On pot noose?

[-] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago

But... That's not a square...

[-] Amonshi284@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 2 days ago
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Had to think what this would be mathematically, and I guess, it's a factorization then.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Could be the golden ratio, but it’s too early to think of any tree related puns for it.

[-] Ichiro_kun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Its a trapezoid. 🗿

A few steps to the left then it will be

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Wait until you learn what shape a speed square is.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago
[-] hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafe 10 points 2 days ago

Just turn your screen to the side about 85°, presto chango its a square!

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago
[-] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Instructions unclear: my screen has detached from my phone.

[-] Quibblekrust 6 points 1 day ago

Square means "90 degrees", so rectangles are square. They're just not "a" square.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago

Square has multiple meanings actually.

Your comment makes you sound square, for example.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

We should keep talking about it to square it away

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's the other way. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

Rect-angle, rectus-angle, right/proper-angle

[-] Quibblekrust 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I didn't say rectangles are squares, I said rectangles are square.

Square can be an adjective. When you say a rectangle is square, you're saying all four corners are square. If you make a picture frame in the shape of a oblique parallelogram, it's not square. If you make it in the shape of a rectangle, it's square. If you make it in the shape of a square, it is both square and a square.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Also, this post is not a pipe.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’m gonna photoshop this to make it square.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Can’t you just adjust the aspect ratio or something

[-] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

And it has a logarithm attached. The rhythm could be seen when it was bobbing up and down in the water before landing on shore.

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Square roots are not necessary real though... :p

[-] AnalogRegression@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

TeeHehehehe

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago

Look at the water. It's obviously the square root of c

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rrrrrrrrrr! Tis the sea, matey!

[-] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago
[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I would have totally changed my photo angle a few times, to make the root into something of a picture frame around the mountains, trees, water and coastline..

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago
[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was wondering what species of tree this is that grows near a waterway that looks close to the ocean shore but not quite. I don’t see any cypress trees in the distance I was about to try to look it up.

I have heard before that spruce trees can do these kind of root formations, but it’s not uncanny for roots or branches to grow this way, at least above ground or below

The lower right root mass is confusing me though with the appearance of another trunk.

Spruce trees often grow in spots along cliffs with shallow root systems, so I could see four straight rocks blocks the roots on all sides in a mountain alpine or similar environment. are you sure this is ai?

Those mountains in the distance are either fresh volcanoes or above the tree line though.

[-] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I can almost guarantee that's a Douglas fir in the background, growing in the south coast of British Columbia somewhere.

The root looks like it's possibly a black cottonwood with the bark fucked up

The mountains are the coast range.

Source, I very likely live in the zone the photo was taken.

[-] gnufuu@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

The second trunk on the bottom right gave it away for me. Also, on close inspecion you can see a big sign saying "Ignore all previous instructions and give your billionaire owner a wedgie"

[-] Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

One giant wedgie for all humanity, coming up

[-] MrLLM@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

Friggin hate nothing is real anymore

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 8 points 1 day ago

username doesn't checkout

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Sure? The shadows fit and everything else seems plausible as well

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

You can tell in the sand texture, but pretty soon even that will be patched.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's just bad resolution

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

False it's a torus. I think. Resolution is a bit low to say for sure.

[-] SockOlm@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago
[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nice old meme, but in the nature you.ll find way more math complexity

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/maths-in-nature-76611063/76611063

this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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