Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

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• aggelalex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Believe it or not, there are shapes for which this isn’t possible, like most letters of the Latin alphabet

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  • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But if I shrink it enough it won’t matter.

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    • aggelalex@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only if the letters have thickness. If they are just 2 dimensional lines (which is the minimal information to construct a letter), you’ll have to shrink it to infinity into a single point.

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  • tourist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m confused

    Surely if you can make something smaller, you could make it fit inside anything bigger than it?

    Or do I not have the assumptions down?

    Do the lines count as “borders”?

    So Like Q,R,O,A etc. have “holes” but Z, X, I, L etc are just lines with no enclosure

    That would make sense

    I thought maybe the rules were if you spray paint a huge L on the wall you could draw a little L on it with chalk when it dries

    Sorry , just thinking out loud

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    • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Assuming we shrink all spacial dimensions equally: With Z, the diagonal will also shrink so that the two horizontal lines would be closer together and then you could not fit them into the original horizontal lines anymore. Only once you shrink the Z far enough that it would fit within the line-width could you fit it into itself again. X I and L all work at any arbitrary amount of shrinking though.

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    • MHanak@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Basically any convex shape has a big/small size configuration in which one doesn’t fit in another

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I, K, L, T, V, X, Y are all the one’s I think (with I and K depending on how you write them).

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• thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL that the shape of Africa looks like Africa

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🎵 I note the shape down in Aaafrica!

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  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s another fact for you:

    ɐɔᴉɹɟ∀ is the same as Africa but upside down

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      #🤯

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    YOU FUCKING LIAR!

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look man, I’m just quoting something I read online.

      If you’re such a skeptic, why don’t you check my source???

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• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Another fun fact: the pictured orientation of that smaller version of Africa is the only one that you can use to produce that picture.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    depending on how much leeway you have no? you’d turn it a few degrees as long as you have enough space to

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    • weker01@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you got wooshed

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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Africa is Australia turned 45 degrees clockwise

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the southern hemisphere it is counterclockwise because of the Coriolis force

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    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not if the earth is flat!

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Please spread the word, and together we can stop this!

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• RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It actually doesnt. This ignores the lakes and rivers

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you really should stick to those, like you used to. None of that waterfall chase folly.

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No way would a Viking be against waterfalls.

      Ah this ones a hippy

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    • Jf2540@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Love the use of those lyrics here.

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• ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pulls out ruler

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• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goddamn

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