Comment on Behold, a square

• ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And that polygons should only consist of straight lines.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    geodesics

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• wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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. It can be and still is exactly 90 degrees.

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