I remember enough from geometry to know this is horseshit and be annoyed at it but not enough to actually prove why
Behold, a square
Submitted 2 months ago by hydroptic@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Sides must be straight and parallel two and two.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
QED
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
it’s homeomorphic to a square, so why not
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
See, you get it
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll tell you why not! You hippie homeopaths are all the same! Science has scienced the evidence that there’s no evidence for homopathic medicines otter than the libido effect.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As long as we ignore the parallel sides requirement, sure.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that the 90 degree angles should be interior angles.
ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that polygons should only consist of straight lines.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
-Carl Friedrich Gauss, probably
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Science memes is not r/shitposting? I would assume the person is serious when posting here.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
The name of that Gauss?
Ampere
lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
c/gatekeeping squares
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You’re no fun
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Polar coordinate square?