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If you remove enough polygons anything is a triangle eventually

They did figure out parts of Pi by cutting rectangles, so maybe there's still some creedance to the old theory... 🤔

Our perception of the world redefined yet again. 😁

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Why is this a rooted tree?

Hilarious! I will be teaching calibrate in bio class next semester. The kids think it’s a mumbo jumbo

this is the basis for trigonometry

Hope rhombus wins its bracket

I saw this coming. I tried to warn everyone.

And some animals are more equal than others

The very height of geek/nerd humor. Thanks Randall.

That's right it goes in the square hole.

Hmm... can we be certain there is no convergent evolution at play? That certain families of triangles are descended from squares, but are so morphologically similar to those descended from circles they were left out of the data?

The DEI mob has infiltrated phylogenetics

My dissertation used new (at the time) trees like this. 😀

triangles 🤝 hyenas

This is GOLD!!!

Normal insanity, thank you.

So triangles are fluid?

@pirulla25.bsky.social

Why does this remind me of Flatland by Abbott? 😆

I had always assumed they were ancient pyramids with a niche space and genome so reduced that they lost a complete dimension at some point.

Nicholas of Cusa has joined the chat.

Back in the day I tried to explain the principles of phylogenetic reconstruction to undergraduates, using a selection of paper clips, bulldog clips and other sundry stationery items. I do not think my strategy was successful.

Yet.. they all fit in the square hole

I really like the theory the triangle is a product of circle meiosis gone weird

What evolutionary model?

This infuriates me in new and exciting ways. Well done.

Skibidi Sperm

And this, people, is why we distinguish between logical and empirical science.

thought this was a bracket tbh at first

confirmed!

Pentagons are the hagfish of circles.

They must be the same people who said Pluto's not a planet, aren't they?

Can confirm. Open Blender. Add circle. Set vertices to 3. BOOM. Triangle

I feel seen.

I understand that particle man hates triangle man.

"Genetic analysis" done by a FRAUD! Dr. Reuleaux has been exposed multiple times for his many conflicts of interest and a history of faking data! How his work here is still trusted even though NO ONE has ever verified it is beyond me...

Circles found themselves in shallow water, developed corners so they could flipper from pool to pool searching for food.

Now this is going to be controversial, as: Plato et al; and Pulled et al; Nether et al; and Regions et al, all quite clearly show that that triangles are trapezoids which developed horns, most likely for defense.

Very science'ie!

As evidenced by the OpenScad cylinder function

I feel seen

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So this is why the circles keep showing up in the triangle factory.

WHY ARE PENTAGON

Every mathematician knows this. As I keep reminding my children every day.

Not the modern circles we know, but the much older, more ovally circles of the distant past.

They spread into different environments

And why don't we see circles becoming triangles in the zoo???

that's only because the ashed remains of a triangle hugging a square were found in the catastrophically destroyed ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

I used to use a website that did research on this by turning it into a game.

Slightly related, I really enjoyed the book "Flatland" which explored the perspective of 2D a world that based social standing on number sides you had; and the explored traveling to a 1D world and entering the 3D.

It occurs to me I'm probably diving in here without ever having taken scuba lessons, BUT aren't parallelograms and trapezoids the knuckle draggers of Geometriphylogenetics?

It's still going into the square hole.

I long held that suspicion.

That convergent evolution between the triangle and trapezium, tho.

wouldn't all regular polygons be related to circles tho

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It pains me that Clint's Reptiles isn't on bluesky yet.

The triangle: geometry's tomato

If a triangle is a circle, surely that pentagon is also in the circle family.

Wow!

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Parametric equations is therefore a paraphyletic traits. What a day.

My whole life has just been upended

I love what you did with the pentagon

xkcd is usually great, but this one is off. *Every* shape shown is the topological equivalent of a circle, so this is less than funny to math people.

There were times when a message like this would have caused a schism that changed lines on a map.

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Sometimes it is clear to me you are not funny, then I realize you are not funny in a very funny way and I snort what I'm drinking out of my nose which isn't funny, but the guy sitting in the next cubicle disagrees.

Looks like long branch attraction to me 🧐

I love the idea that triangles are just the octopi of shapes. They took their own damn path down evolution and still got points. Just like octopi took their own damn path down evolution and still got intelligent.

Wait until they start doing DNA analysis on ancient geometric remains.

Always grateful that someone posts this info no matter what platform we go to

I teach science and that is pretty funny

they all do share a common ancestor though: the crude drawing of a rock