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[–] YiddishMcSquidish 31 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Oh let's get pedantic!

The curved edges technically have infinite "side".

[–] hansolo 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

....and a square has four interior 90 degree angles.

...and based on the infinite number of sides for a curved line aspect, the "90 degree" angles would all be +/- the limit as it approaches zero, so never truly 90 degrees but always an infinite fraction away.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, we gonna need more rigor on this one.

"A square is a shape made up of four equally long lines a, b, c, d where a is perpendicular to c and d and parallel to b. Each of these lines meet exactly two other lines at it's ends."

I'm not a mathematician so there might an odd case somewhere in there. Maybe it has to be confined to a shared plane?

[–] hansolo 1 points 30 seconds ago

So you're saying this is the outline of a square in the astral plane? Because it sounds like you're saying this is a square in the astral plane.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Someone knows more calculus than they are letting on...

[–] hansolo 1 points 3 minutes ago

Hey, I failed the highest level of calculus possible. Twice.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not if this square is a projection of a curved surface

[–] YiddishMcSquidish 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If it is a projection, then there are more than two curved sides, which also begs credence to the interpretability of the angles they intersect.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Well angles between 3 points are always going to be angles. If your choose a different configuration of dimensional parameters you can effectively project a square from the 2D plane into this exact shape, then logically the angles would follow.

Yo bro let's downscale everything to 2D then upscale it to infinity or something, everything is possible when you project to this demonic crystal justttt this way /s

[–] YiddishMcSquidish 3 points 3 hours ago

You lost me at 3 points. Could you dumb it down a bit?