Now that I think of it, when doing lattice structures, many sections would have given rhombuses.
But still, never used the name even over there.
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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoA rhombus is just an equilateral parallelogram, and parallelograms are the easiest way to approach vector cross products, and you’re 3/4 of the way their when you do tip-to-tail vector addition. They should have come up at least a couple times in geometry. Rhombi pop up as faces in lots of polyhedra, and tiles in lattices. I don’t know much about crystallography, but I’m sure they make an appearance.
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah and we engineers love parallelograms, but not as much as triangles.