Wat. There are three sides my dudes. What am I missing?
Square!
Submitted 1 week ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to science_memes@mander.xyz
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CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 days ago
The semi circle side
vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 days ago
The almost-circle thingy is one side, which is touching the two straight lines, which are joined by another circular segment at the rightmost part. That makes four sides.
Randelung@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The 90 degree angles are supposed to be on the inside. Which in this case would mean at least the same side. Otherwise the 360 degree rule is broken and it’s not a rectangle, much less a square.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
It makes me want to be angry and laugh at the same time
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 6 days ago
It’s hip to be a…
Vathsade@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
That music is just too darn loud
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Is that a raincoat?
propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 days ago
Fancy exclamation point
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 6 days ago
IDIC!
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Does this even meet the criteria for “a shape”? I’d have thought you need to be able to travel from any point within the shape to any other point, without crossing a line.
saltesc@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The part showing the angle is not part of it. They should’ve made it a dotted line or something.
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HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Thank you that was helpful.
lunarul@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That sounds like the definition for convex shape, not the general definition for a shape
jdeath@lemm.ee 6 days ago
it doesn’t have to be a straight line between points eh
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 days ago
You’re the second person to have made that suggestion to me, but no.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Depends how you define a shape. I don’t think it’s a polygon because it doesn’t have straight lines. Technically a circle also isn’t a polygon by the same rules, but circles have their own special little clubhouse. Sure is a shape though. I think this… thing is also a shape. Just not a useful one.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 days ago
As it was presented in the OP, I don’t think it is a shape. If I get two squares and stick them next to each other so one side of each is touching, have I suddenly got one rectangle? Or do I still have two squares with a border between them?
Someone else posted an amended version with the internal lines removed. The equivalent of taking those two squares and removing the border between them, so you would have just one rectangle.
lung@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Idk seems very useful to me, like if I need a paperweight or doorstop
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I couldn’t find any definition of geometric shape that uses that criterion, including Wikipedia which also has a 5-pointed star shown with 5 line segments labelled as a shape: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape.
The meme is wrong because squares are polygons by definition, which by definition are made of line segments, but this image has a curved shape.