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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can tell it’s a triangle because of the way it is.

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    • Cadeillac@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How neat is that??

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      • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yay nostalgia!

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      • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s pretty neat!

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Philomena Cunk proof right there

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  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that won’t work for yoda, though. for him, there is no triangle. there’s just doangle or donotangle.

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    • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How have I not heard this before 😆

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I nearly failed geometry because I didn’t understand what my instructor wanted from me.

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Just look at it”. Visual proofs are not proofs. They’re demonstrations. For a species that is so easily fooled by things we see, visualization cannot be taken as rigorous proof.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm can you prove that

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      • cicadagen@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Optical illusions?

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  • Brickardo@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even philosophy 101 can give you a ton of reasons why looking at it just isn’t enough

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    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Especially Philosophy 101

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real?

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  • venoft@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes but what if one side is so slightly curved that it’s invisible to the naked eye? Then your total angles would be 179.99 degrees and it’s not a triangle.

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    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Non-Euclidian horrors beyond comprehension

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      • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Commonly known as reality

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But isn’t a curve just many angles next to one another?

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      • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, but infinitely many.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From a calculus perspective, you may be able to define it as infinitely many angles infinitely close to one another, but I don’t think that’d be a particularly good definition.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “If we can’t prove these two triangles are similar while not being congruent, the world is doomed.”

    “Oh my god. We need a 10th grader with at least a B-average, stat!”

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In one of my last CS classes, we did proofs and would use “by observation” for this kind of thing.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I loved geometry. It made algebra make sense. Plus I had a really awesome geometry teacher. He looked like Shel Silverstein and was super pumped every day to teach math.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I loved geometry. It’s the class where I first got experience programming. I just sat in class programming stuff on my calculator not really paying attention. I did fine in the class luckily.

      Totally unrelated, but I (30 yo) recently realized I’m almost certainly ADHD. There definitely weren’t any identifiable signs before that people should have noticed…

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Equilateral triangle. All three sides are equal length and it has three interior angles that add up to exactly 180 degrees.

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you telling me that “you can see this is a triangle” ??! You can see ?? How dear you say that!

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  • mayo_cider@hexbear.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t believe in geometry

    I’m 6"5

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