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Why does it remind me of this?
Jesus Christ lmao
I found this to help me imagine the shape:
Wouldn't that make the face on the right non-planar?
If you’re free to put the center vertex anywhere, then I’d think you could position it to avoid that…
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STOP MAKING NEW SHAPES.
WE HAVE ENOUGH SHAPES.
The Universe: fuck you, i do what i want
I'm not sure.
My doctor always says that I'm out of shape, so I'm sure I should get a new one
We already have all the shapes we need. Square. Circle. Octagon. Tetrahedron. Tesseract. Penis.
That's enough shapes.
A penis is just a fancy cylinder
And a dildo is just a penis with flair
Did you just skip Hexagons?! Hexagons are the Bestagons!
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.
Oh, I actually didn't know that. Thats a really interesting fact, thanks!
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Ah just make it a 3d rectangle and slap a +/-10% on it
Ah, a fellow engineer!
Scutoid these nuts, lmao
Polygottem lmao
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?
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.
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Why would they change shapes!? SHAPES IS SHAPES!
Wake up everyone, a new shape just dropped!
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