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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Better than rheumatoid stuff.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What other toids are there?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's just a joke on the "hexagon is bestagon" saying.

[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

I know, but I wanna know about the other toids, to see if the scutoid is really the bestoid.

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

No Crtltoids or Youngtoids or sum?

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

My life now feels complete with this incredibly important piece of information.

[–] Dampyr@piefed.social 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does it remind me of this?

meme kissing

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I found this to help me imagine the shape:

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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 week ago (5 children)

STOP MAKING NEW SHAPES.

WE HAVE ENOUGH SHAPES.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The Universe: fuck you, i do what i want

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure.

My doctor always says that I'm out of shape, so I'm sure I should get a new one

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We already have all the shapes we need. Square. Circle. Octagon. Tetrahedron. Tesseract. Penis.

That's enough shapes.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

A penis is just a fancy cylinder

And a dildo is just a penis with flair

[–] noodly_appendage@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you just skip Hexagons?! Hexagons are the Bestagons!

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Octagons and hexagons are the same thing. It's right there in the name. Gon. It's okay, many people think they're different shapes, it's a very very common misconception.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, they made Polygon 2

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When will we get Polygon Z?

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[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah just make it a 3d rectangle and slap a +/-10% on it

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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

Jesus Christ lmao

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The area is very easy to calc, its only adding clear poligons, basic geometry. Somewhat harder to calculate the volumen of this thing.

[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your spanish is leaking, mate.

[–] DonPiano@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

Fun: The leak looks the same as if it had sprung from german!

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Polygottem lmao

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Looks like a bunch of triangles to me

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 week ago

Reticulating Splines

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Any teachers here wanna weigh in on the ability of current kids' ability to write complete sentences, let alone calculate the area of this shape?

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Given enough time and known lengths, most of my students should be able to calculate the surface area of this by the time they graduate. They'd just split everything into triangles and quadrangles, use the formula for each, then add everything together. It's not that useful of an exercise though, didactically speaking, because once you grasp that process, it's just repetitive and lengthy. There'd have to be a LOT of given values to make this solvable, too.

On a more subjective note, they can also form sentences. They just don't want to when colloquial speech brings the point across just as well and it's an informal setting. The same is true for most people of all ages in my experience.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

on the ability of current kids’ ability

XD

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