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Ok_Secretary_8243 t1_j1cgno7 wrote

Reply to comment by delectable-tea in I have a phobia of edges by sladeshied

Cutting it so that it’s in the shape of a circle.

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WolfHunter17 t1_j1dcptk wrote

A circle is just a bunch of edges very closely together

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TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1dfyzb wrote

A circle is the limit of a regular n-gon as n approaches infinity.

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WolfHunter17 t1_j1dgoeh wrote

Precisely what I said :p

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TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1dhbpx wrote

It's not. "A bunch" implies a finite number. Any n-gon with a finite number of edges is not a circle.

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WolfHunter17 t1_j1dik3n wrote

Woah, do tell me more!

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TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1djmi5 wrote

I teach college math, my guy. I'm just trying to educate here. You had the right idea, but the wording was problematic and incomplete.

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WolfHunter17 t1_j1dmo5m wrote

While I appreciate the concern, I feel like this was not really the place to do it, my guy/gal/enby. Taking aside the fact that the wording was quite fine considering we're speaking here of a physical approximation of a circle and not the mathematical concept of one, we are on /r/jokes. Not really the place to be pedantic about stuff like this.

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