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PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT. Our own Aeronmelon is going through some shit at the moment and could use some help. Check it out here and consider an upvote or a comment to push it into activity. Sorry, not something I do often or will be spamming. But I care about my friend and if I can get a couple more eyes on his situation then I'm going to try to do what I can.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I found this to help me imagine the shape:

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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 58 points 3 days ago (4 children)

STOP MAKING NEW SHAPES.

WE HAVE ENOUGH SHAPES.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (2 children)

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

That's enough shapes.

[–] noodly_appendage@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days 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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[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

A penis is just a fancy cylinder

And a dildo is just a penis with flair

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The Universe: fuck you, i do what i want

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Dampyr@piefed.social 85 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why does it remind me of this?

meme kissing

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Finally, they made Polygon 2

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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This poor girl neck didn't make it

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Polygottem lmao

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days 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 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Your spanish is leaking, mate.

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

Better than rheumatoid stuff.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 2 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 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

on the ability of current kids’ ability

XD

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Looks like a bunch of triangles to me

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

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

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

Incredible

Why would they change shapes!? SHAPES IS SHAPES!

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