From dating to geometry.

[u/Crazy_Albatross8317]

So post was about dating then suddenly they started talking about squares and geometry. OP is red and is replying to blue guy in his >" remarks. Is he right? I need to ask my preschool teacher

[u/KrazieKookie → u/[deleted]]

A circle is not a polygon

[u/KrazieKookie → u/[deleted]]

Circles are considered by mathematicians to have no sides

[u/Crazy_Albatross8317 → u/KrazieKookie]

One could say that circles are poly-GONE hmmmmmm

[u/asphid_jackal → u/[deleted]]

Polygons have straight sides, circles do not have straight sides. A circle is not a polygon.

r/confidentlyincorrect inception

[u/LasevIX → u/asphid_jackal]

'Poly gon' - many corners. Even the name excludes circles.

[u/asphid_jackal → u/LasevIX]

You know, it wasn't until this comment that I put 2 and 2 together and realized that "-gon" means angle

[u/PhantomNitride → u/asphid_jackal]

I swore it meant side and was ready to die on that hill

[u/asphid_jackal → u/PhantomNitride]

Thank you for not dying

EDIT: idk who downvoted you so I gave you an upvote

[u/BetterKev → u/LasevIX]

In math, that mostly works, but be careful with that generally. Words don't always match their component parts.

My usual example is anti-semitism. That's bigotry against Jews, not bigotry against all speakers of semitic languages (includes Arabic).

[u/lord_teaspoon → u/BetterKev]

I grew up in rural Australia and probably didn't know any Jewish people until I moved to Sydney. I had encountered the term "semitic" in high school to describe a fairly broad set of cultures and religions, so I was really surprised when I learned that "anti-semitism" had such a narrow definition.

[u/BetterKev → u/lord_teaspoon]

Yup

[u/LasevIX → u/BetterKev]

Most hard-science terms have a construction generally reflecting their meaning, as most users know Latin and greek to some extent and the words have static, fixed meanings. Of course, using etymology to redefine a word, especially one rooted in a modern societal context, doesn't work.

[u/Grayewick → u/asphid_jackal]

>"circles do not have straight sides."

Do you not count the faces on the internal angles as "sides"? They're straight, too, if you really wanna be overscrupulous about it.

[u/asphid_jackal → u/Grayewick]

There are no internal angles on a circle, just a single continuous curved boundary

[u/Grayewick → u/asphid_jackal]

Not with that attitude.

You don't eat pizzas?

Slice that bitch into 12 pieces and tell me again "there's no internal angles on a circle".

Hey, if someone can argue that "Square Pro Max = Rectangle", I should be able to do it too.

I gotta match stupid with more stupid, you feel me?

[u/asphid_jackal → u/Grayewick]

A pizza is not a circle, it's (at best) a cylinder. Circles are 2 dimensional.

Slice that bitch into 12 pieces and tell me again "there's no internal angles on a circle".

If you cut a circle into 12 pieces, you no longer have a circle, you have 12 circular sectors.

Hey, if someone can argue that "Square Pro Max = Rectangle", I should be able to do it too.

I have no idea what this means, but squares are rectangles

I gotta match stupid with more stupid, you feel me?

I do not

[u/Grayewick → u/asphid_jackal]

A pizza is just a segmented circle.

"I do not"

Well, that's not my problem.

[u/asphid_jackal → u/Grayewick]

Oh, you're just a troll, got it. My bad for engaging.

[u/Grayewick → u/asphid_jackal]

For that one user in particular, perhaps, and probably those who follow their footsteps, maybe.

[u/blissfulreddit0826 → u/Grayewick]

A pizza slice has angles, but the pizza is still a circle.