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So are they like extinct or something?

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LadyButterfly@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • measureyoucanpleasure@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In my culture, rhombus is the basis of a vagina pictogram. In my culture, rhombus is a popular shape.

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Czech_vulva_symbols

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is amazing and thank you for sharing. The ability of the human race to come up with different yet universally understood yonic symbols is heartening. Like no matter what place or time, we’re all in this together and we will be drawing genitalia.

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This person hasn’t done math past elementary.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I went up to Calculus I in college (along with some physics and engineering), and I’ve done a bit of amateur math outside of school … but the concept of a rhombus was still used exactly zero times.

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      • disorderly@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Right there with you, I didn’t use it in analytical geometry, calcs 1-3, diff eqs, or numerical methods. I don’t think it would have shown up in my other math classes either. I’m pretty sure the rhombus is nothing more than a happy shape.

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        A rhombus is just an equilateral parallelogram, and parallelograms are the easiest way to approach vector cross products, and you’re 3/4 of the way their when you do tip-to-tail vector addition. They should have come up at least a couple times in geometry. Rhombi pop up as faces in lots of polyhedra, and tiles in lattices. I don’t know much about crystallography, but I’m sure they make an appearance.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is true for most parallelograms and later polygons.

        Daughter just went through parts of middle school that seemed to focus on things like rhombuses and trapezoids. The only thing I"m thinking, as an engineer, is when was the last time I gave af about any of those shapes. I would just reduce them to triangles and rectangles.

        Trig skills are WAY more useful that knowing how to calulate specific polygon shapes… I don’t mean to say that middle schools should be learning trig… just that the time spent learning how to do specific shapes is a literal waste of time that they could be using to prepare for later things like trig.

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      • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What is a rhombus but two triangles, my dear

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    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re not really mentioned in more advanced math. It’s all polygons.

      Ok, triangles are often treated as a special case. But for anything else it’s a n-sided polygon.

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      • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You mean regular polygons. A rhombus is an irregular polygon.

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      • AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nah in my experience everything is a circle. You see π even in places you don’t expect

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I ever have my own home, my house will have a rhombus room.

    “Don’t you mean a rumpus room?”

    Bro, that’s not even a real shape.

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  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every square you ever met is a rhombus that gave up its art career and got a boring 9-5.

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  • MoffKalast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All shapes will be hunted down to extinction until the one and only remains.

    Image

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    • Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty good. But it’s not a hexagon, which is the bestagon…

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    • No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looked around my room

      Stacks of books Rectangular posters with rectangles on them Windows, curtains, television

      Then i saw the plaid shorts i am wearing and had a good laugh

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    • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      grabs tinfoil hat

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait until they find out it’s all actually triangles

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rhombuses are really commonly used in trigonometry puzzles. You know, “Here’s a bunch of lines and a couple of angles, find the angle at X.”

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t a rhombus just what you call a diamond that’s having a bad day?

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • joyjoy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Those are parallelograms.

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      • Cyanity@lemmy.zip ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        They would be parallelograms if all 4 sides didn’t have the same length. But they do, so it’s rhombus.

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  • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s also called diamond or zoomie square. You know, cuz it’s like a square that’s going so fast the pointy parts start at the tippy top

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  • Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes! Even a rhombus!! comb.io/Sks1NZ

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  • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don't forget the poor trapezoid.

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    • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      RIP

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  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I played “Psychonauts: In the Rhombus of Ruin” I got reminded again that this thing actually exists.

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  • Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some pretty rhombus logic if you ask me

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  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every 3 ft square box that you shoved a bunch of 3.25 ft long irregularly shaped items into then closed the flaps on is a rhombus.

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  • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We learn to learn how to learn.

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  • HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun Fact, many door frames are in fact rhomboid or trapezoidal.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A rectangle is both a rhombus and a trapezoid too

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      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        LOL.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wasn’t she that actress from that 2008 movie Doomsday?

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    • Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, you’re thinking of Danny DeVito’s wife. They have separated but are still married.

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  • GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.penny-arcade.com/…/locked-in-brutal-combat

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh man, I forgot about Crayon Physics

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  • bibbasa@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s big triangle and the anti-rhombus lobby keeping us down.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNTac7ExQhA

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  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rhombusted!

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