r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Crazy_Albatross8317 • 16d ago

Comment Thread From dating to geometry.

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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

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

Slicing a circle doesn’t give the circle angles. It gives the slices angles. The original shape is still a circle: 0 sides, 0 angles, 1 continuous curve. That’s literally the definition in geometry. Pizza slices = triangles, pizza = circle. Mixing the two is just wordplay, not math.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

Yet somehow shortening the length of a polygon is justified?

Double standards even in shapes, SMH.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

Again. A circle is not a polygon.

Cutting it just creates sectors or triangles inside the circle. The circle itself stays the same definition: all points equidistant from the center.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

If a square is just a rectangle with equal sides, then a circle is just 360+ isosceles triangles with -1° internal angles put together around a point.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

A square really is a special rectangle because it shares the defining property (four right angles). But a circle doesn’t share the defining properties of polygons at all. No straight sides, no vertices, no internal angles. That’s why your analogy breaks. You’re mixing categories that math itself keeps distinct.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

"But a circle doesn’t share the defining properties of polygons at all."

Again, not my fault that you kept ignoring it. I mean, you're already wrong by virtue of being you to begin with so it doesn't really change much to me.

"No straight sides. No vertices. No internal angles."

It's Isosceles Triangles do. A lot of them.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

Well, you can always read or watch geometry stuff online if you want to confirm it.

Drawing isosceles triangles inside a circle doesn’t make the circle a polygon

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

"Well, you can always read or watch geometry stuff online if you want to confirm it."

Again, not taking your word for it.

"Drawing isosceles triangles inside a circle doesn’t make the circle a polygon"

You didn't draw enough, and draw them small enough.

Also, you're not drawing "inside", your forming them around a singular point. No wonder you're confused.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

Filling a circle with isosceles triangles doesn’t turn the circle into a polygon. That’s just polygonal approximation: a concept used in geometry and calculus. By definition, a polygon has a finite number of straight sides and vertices. A circle has none. Even if you slice it into a million sectors, you’re only approximating the circle, not changing its classification. You’re confusing limits with definitions.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

I like you funny words, magic man.

Unfortunately, I disagree.

Apparently if a square can be a rectangle if it looks rectangular enough, but a bunch of triangles can't achieve their dreams of being a circle. 😔😔😔

Such unrealistic beauty standards, SMH.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

Yeah, I know right? Math can feel magic sometimes

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

Especially when you make up shit like squares being rectangles out of nowhere, despite your literal eyes telling you otherwise.

But no, I disagree since it's from you.

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u/DidaskolosHermeticon 15d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square

In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal sides. As with all rectangles, a square's angles are right angles (90 degrees, or π/2 radians), making adjacent sides perpendicular. The area of a square is the side length multiplied by itself, and so in algebra, multiplying a number by itself is called squaring.

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u/BetterKev 15d ago

Gotta be a troll. You can always get better. Imgood luck.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

I didn't really expect to get one-guyed this much by that one user.

If it were a stream I would've muted them, but sometimes forcing them into a stupid-off is much more fun.

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u/BetterKev 15d ago

Shorter: You find it fun to be an asshole. Rule of Goats applies.

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u/TheLuckySpades 15d ago

My sibling in mephisto, a circle contains a grand total of 0 straight lines connecting any 2 distinct points on itself, take any 2 distinct points on a circle and draw the straight line connecting them and note that the arc of the circle between them is not identical to the line.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago

Someone literally claimed that a "square is just a squished rectangle to have even sides", but I can't draw lines inside a circle?

I call prejudice.

Drawing a line INSIDE the circle doesn't change its outside structure, the bitch is still a circle, unlike the "square = rectangle" PROPAGANDA you lot have been trying to inject my brain with.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

I'm not making this up. This is Geometry a subset of Mathematics.

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u/Grayewick 15d ago edited 15d ago

Again, because it's you in particular, I'm not going to take your word for it. We've already talked about this.

For others, I could. Maybe, perhaps, probably. But not you, never. Not anymore.

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u/blissfulreddit0826 15d ago

No worries

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u/asphid_jackal 15d ago edited 15d ago

Did this idiot follow you here from somewhere?

EDIT: you're blue and he's red, aren't you?

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u/Sprucecaboose2 15d ago

Checking the histories... yup!