• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    I remember enough from geometry to know this is horseshit and be annoyed at it but not enough to actually prove why

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      11 days ago

      Take shitposts seriously and point out their obvious errors

      -Carl Friedrich Gauss, probably

      • Eheran@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

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

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          11 days ago

          I would assume the person is serious when posting here.

          This sounds like a “you” problem

      • wolfpack86@lemmy.world
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        11 days 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.

        • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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          11 days 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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      12 hours ago

      I’ll tell you why not! You hippie homeopaths are all the same! Science has scienced the evidence that there’s no evidence for homopathic medicines otter than the libido effect.

    • Codex@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      The semi-circle is one side, then the 2 straight edges, and the arc between them is the 4th side.

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        That’s what I thought. The only way on which this has four sides is if the semi -circle is a side. But if that’s the case, then I don’t know wha the definition of “side” is

        • bstix@feddit.dk
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          11 days ago

          Knock knock. Do you have a moment to discuss non-euclidean geometry?