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westcal98 t1_j39m0ku wrote
Your secret is safe with me cuz I'll never repeat this.
a_seventh_knot t1_j39m2u1 wrote
that's a funny way to say rectangle
GregorianShant t1_j39mpxh wrote
Motherfucker it has 4 sides.
Reverend_James t1_j39np5r wrote
Easy for you to say
suzukigun4life t1_j39ntzh wrote
Yeah, I'll just continue to look at it as a rectangle instead.
Anon293357 t1_j39nxll wrote
HG_Shurtugal t1_j39o6bh wrote
It's the same reason nobody really knows how long the coast is.
SlowLoudEasy t1_j39pq17 wrote
Literally everyone knows this.
Thin-Rip-3686 t1_j39q8yh wrote
Sure, but it’s an irregular one. All those poor constipated Coloradans.
RogueFox76 t1_j39q9vc wrote
Words!
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TechnicalSymbiote t1_j39syv2 wrote
How the heck is that pronounced?
Hexa-hecta-ennea-conta-kai-hepta-gon?
NateinOregon t1_j39tz0k wrote
There are 697 sides to every problem.
LakeEarth t1_j39vlby wrote
Wait a minute. Colorado is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon? I've been telling everyone it was a hexahectaenneacontakaioctogon! Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I’ve been making an idiot out of myself!
Timballist0 t1_j39whyj wrote
With coastline measuring, it's almost infinite.
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BisexualCactusNoises t1_j39y8it wrote
I didn't know we kept counting after ten tbh
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da90 t1_j3a00jb wrote
And not even that: the earth isn’t a Euclidean plane, not to mention surface topography!
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Andagaintothegym t1_j3a3i98 wrote
I've found my new WiFi password
IAmNotAnAlcoholic t1_j3a4vss wrote
There are 4 sides!
Landlubber77 t1_j3a7ty7 wrote
And Kelly Clarkson once ordered all of them with her entrée.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_j3a9tfl wrote
Also don't forget the curvature of spacetime due to gravitational forces.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_j3a9vuw wrote
I think that was a song in Mary Poppins.
AnthillOmbudsman t1_j3aa0uo wrote
Set your access point name to "Hexahectaenneacontakaioctogon Agency" to freak out your methhead neighbors.
DiggingUpTheCorpses t1_j3acobu wrote
Gesundhiet.
CanuckianOz t1_j3ada0z wrote
I’ve been calling her Krandle!
MarioInOntario t1_j3add9o wrote
Pathetic. Don’t even bother showing up at this year’s geometrical shapes naming convention convention.
meiandus t1_j3addt1 wrote
I'm gonna just go ahead and assume that you order your ranch dressing with a straw.
Hititwitharock t1_j3aeb7p wrote
Why do we even have a word for this.
Lowfuji t1_j3ag9gj wrote
Aliens were able to build structures with stone blocks in south america that look like they were carved with lasers, leaving little to no space betwixt.
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heynaldo88 t1_j3ahbp4 wrote
Just like the common name for a quadrilateral is a “rectangle”, the common name for a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon is a “Colorado”
formerlyanonymous_ t1_j3ahcvn wrote
Mrs Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies!
Ezekiel2121 t1_j3ahut9 wrote
I went back to it three times.
Gave up three times.
sm4cm t1_j3ahykw wrote
Hexa-Hecta-enamaidk
gwaydms t1_j3ai2wy wrote
Yes! One bite at a time.
[deleted] t1_j3aim08 wrote
u/jaredpolis can confirm.
Why_T t1_j3ajbfj wrote
Fractals be like that.
hobbitdude13 t1_j3alukv wrote
And the hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon looked at me
Ironwolf7448 t1_j3am2oj wrote
TIL that a hexahectaenneacontaiheptagon is a thing.
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS t1_j3amb7q wrote
Idc what OP says, Colorado is a fucking rectangle. 4 sides.
kingswing23 t1_j3amvzy wrote
This was my best gues.
Also conta-kai is fun to say
Mondiaposa t1_j3angt9 wrote
I just glazed over. I don’t have the energy to try and pronounce it.
RevolutionaryMove357 t1_j3anzji wrote
Some poor scholar spent his life’s work calculating then naming that shape.
Tyrinnus t1_j3aoore wrote
TIL.... something completely un-memorable, and who gives a shit? Just regurgitate something uninteresting for click bait.
LongboardLove t1_j3apxwu wrote
CrieDeCoeur t1_j3aq00l wrote
Fucking Boebert
KatieCashew t1_j3aq4nr wrote
My elementary school project where we made 3d maps of Colorado using a box lid as a base agrees with you.
Wendals87 t1_j3aqfz0 wrote
I guess there is more than one side to this story
GimpsterMcgee t1_j3arq84 wrote
Yeah but how far off is it? How much exists outside the rectangle?(and conversely, how much of neighboring states intrudes into it?) I can’t imagine it’s remotely significant except for the… 7 people who live in those areas.
TheGreatBeldezar t1_j3asb45 wrote
How many dimensions we in?
TonyDungyHatesOP t1_j3asbbw wrote
(nice x 10) + 7
DuoMaxwell22333 t1_j3atcwj wrote
Their secret is safe with my indifference.
sckego t1_j3au1ji wrote
No, it’s completely different. They aren’t the same in any way.
Colorado is supposed to have straight borders. When surveyors went and staked out the borders, they didn’t place them right on the theoretical straight line, sometimes they were off by thousands of feet. And once the markers are placed and everyone shook hands on it, those became the “ground truth” - not the theoretical straight line. That didn’t really matter (or was even discoverable) until the advent of GPS, when they figured out that their “straight” line really zigged and zagged all over the place, and fixing them is real PITA as described in the article. So, they got left as-is.
Coastlines are jagged, not straight. You can measure a coastline with a mile-long ruler and get a value, but you’ll have skipped a bunch of zigs and zags along the way, so the coastline is actually longer than what you measured. So you get a shorter ruler, maybe 100 yds long. Same problem. You can use a normal 1-ft ruler, but you’re still missing the zigs and zags of individual rocks at the waters edge. Etc, etc…
da90 t1_j3auzz9 wrote
Fun fact: the earth is a much closer to a flat plane in curved space time than it is in our Euclidean view
DamnImAwesome t1_j3avqp1 wrote
I wanna see those smug spelling bee kids deal with this one
hazeleyedwolff t1_j3avss6 wrote
Changing my hotspot SSID to "shout hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon for password" the next time I'm in the airport.
2ndOfficerCHL t1_j3avxzm wrote
That's hair splitting. So human surveying errors caused Colorado to have a jagged border which appears straight from a distance. For practical purposes it can be drawn as a rectangle on maps, just like you don't need to account for the position of every grain of sand on the beach when measuring coasts.
drfsupercenter t1_j3awsyz wrote
Technically all shapes (besides a perfect circle) have a finite number of sides, the question is just when do you stop counting? All 50 states could be described this way.
IBeTrippin t1_j3ax5hy wrote
Damn, that was fun.
Dannysmartful t1_j3ax6uq wrote
*Snowflake
jeremykelly1 t1_j3axqvh wrote
The jagged edge of Colorado is still measurable though. Changing the scale of measurement as is done in the coastline problem doesn’t change the outcome of the measurement of Colorado.
You don’t have to account for every grain of sand when measuring coasts, but what grains of sand do you account for? Answering that question differently amounts to different measurements. Colorado is not arbitrary in that regard. It’s just not 4 straight lines. It’s 697.
Silver-Toe4231 t1_j3axuvh wrote
I tried to pronounce that aloud, and a mummy came back to life.
Complex_Jellyfish647 t1_j3axzmp wrote
Okay
djdefenda t1_j3ay86v wrote
Check out Fort Blunder and the story behind those map lines :)
AsH_mAiN_6 t1_j3azdsj wrote
Because of the curve of the earth the buttom is actually bigger then the top yes as a coloradian myself it a rectangle but with the slight bend on the top and bottom ig it gives it more sides
sckego t1_j3b04od wrote
If it could be drawn as a straight border, we wouldn’t be having this conversation—no one would care if it were off by a few feet one way or the other. It matters because it’s off by more than half a mile in places, and can’t be just hand-waved away as “straight enough”… which is the point of the article, that Colorado actually has 600whatever sides.
In measuring coastlines, there is no “straight enough.” It’s ALWAYS changing. You say you don’t need to account for every grain of sand. Fine, what about every large rock outcrop? Every small inlet? Every major bay? The length is 100% dependent on what measuring stick you use, and there is no right answer for which is the correct measuring stick.
ourobboros t1_j3b07wd wrote
God dangit. You wrote my lastpass master password.
LilaJax22 t1_j3b0c92 wrote
I live in Colorado, I will take you up on this suggestion if the character number allows it.
hanselgarbenselbeans t1_j3b1ena wrote
Just say it has 697 sides. I almost had a stroke
Due_Platypus_3913 t1_j3b1tqg wrote
According to maps,and the globe I’m looking at,it’s what’s called a “rectangle “.
mrcydonia t1_j3b2hfo wrote
It looked at you?
-1KingKRool- t1_j3b2kk5 wrote
It’d be a trapezoid then.
sb_747 t1_j3b2p7e wrote
Well he is an expert on not being straight
AgoraiosBum t1_j3b34zt wrote
How am I even supposed to measure it if I don't know the right relative frame of reference?
dandroid126 t1_j3b41jj wrote
Reddit LOVES splitting hairs. This whole thread is filled with people splitting thinner and thinner hairs.
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Hewholooksskyward t1_j3b4blv wrote
Found the Critter. :)
Landlubber77 t1_j3b5ytt wrote
Crispy onion straws, more like.
HughJaynus1nOnly t1_j3b64dj wrote
Shut up nerd
nautilator44 t1_j3b67bm wrote
No, it has four. Stop trying to make the shape of Colorado interesting. Focus more on the beautiful landscapes.
triggerfish15 t1_j3b6lga wrote
Note to self: Colorado can never win something fair and square.
wait_what_how_do_I t1_j3b6m3o wrote
Ok am I crazy, or does that sound good right now?
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meiandus t1_j3b6ygn wrote
Ok, so now I low key want this to be a thing...
LetsTryScience t1_j3b7srz wrote
Don't worry, just as your brain crashes so will ArcGIS. Then you can stop thinking about it and grab some coffee.
Landlubber77 t1_j3b9y08 wrote
Brother, crispy onion straws are a thing, and a beautiful one at that. Sometimes they're an add-on to your steak at a fancy steak house, or an add-on to your burger at a non-fancy Applebee's. Either way they're delish, like yummy fried air. And you weren't far off on your initial impression of me, I definitely love me some ranch and/or blue cheese.
jewellman100 t1_j3bbb5i wrote
It's actually 698 sides, you missed one, check again
La_Diablito t1_j3bcagh wrote
Say that five times fast.
Macnaa t1_j3bczza wrote
There is a formula for constructing these words for every number. Like naming chemicals
prjindigo t1_j3bdasj wrote
Uh, it has a lot more surfaces than that...
dog_of_society t1_j3be9iy wrote
It's a rectangle on an elliptic plane.
horsemagicians t1_j3beagc wrote
That may quite possibly be the stupidest description anybody has ever thought the need to create. Why the hell do we need a word for an object with 697 sides.
CaptainDadJoke t1_j3beqgq wrote
nice7
TigerDragon747 t1_j3bhik6 wrote
🤓
Natomiast t1_j3bhmqo wrote
you don't have to include 'kai' in -gon names, it should be: hexahectaenneacontaheptagon, it's way simpler to pronounce now, isn't?
Oscar_Cunningham t1_j3bk0fv wrote
Is this just another way of saying 'gravity is perpendicular to the ground'?
starmartyr t1_j3bk953 wrote
It kind of depends on which maps. Along the borders, you really need to know where the state line is for things like zoning regulations and legal jurisdiction. In some cases, these jagged edges are half a mile wide.
starmartyr t1_j3bkhd7 wrote
It's actually really easy to calculate the length of the coastline of Colorado.
starmartyr t1_j3bkmak wrote
In the case of Colorado, it does not have any natural boundaries. Colorado and Wyoming are the only states that are like this. Every other state has at least one boundary defined by a coastline or river. All of Colorado's sides are straight lines (at least as straight as a line can be on a globe).
starmartyr t1_j3bkt5s wrote
Some of the dogleg turns in the border are as wide as half a mile. It's several thousand square miles across the entire state. That said, there are no major population centers on the borders.
starmartyr t1_j3bkvxg wrote
Trapezoid would be more accurate, but if you zoom in close enough you'll see that isn't quite true. Those lines have jagged edges.
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[deleted] t1_j3bpgib wrote
Do we seriously have names for all the 696 other variants too?
FarmhouseFan t1_j3bqp13 wrote
Not to mention fractals.
GoGaslightYerself t1_j3brkx9 wrote
ramriot t1_j3brxdi wrote
At that point, why not just admit that a rectangle drawn on a spheroid has curved sides.
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Suspicious-Cycle5967 t1_j3buma8 wrote
Yeah, magnify a ruler and it's not straight either. I feel like this is a scale / order of magnitude kind of thing
alexmikli t1_j3bvrv9 wrote
There's probably some bullshit rivers or rocks or cattle farms that slightly deform the rectangle in 693 places.
[deleted] t1_j3bw82n wrote
Greek is a beautiful language
I can't understand it for shit, but it is beautiful
dougsbeard t1_j3bwmac wrote
Such a cromulent response.
TheCloudFestival t1_j3bxzg7 wrote
This article is the most clickbait nonsense I've ever seen.
TL;DR - Colorado is indeed a four sided state when represented on a globe, but when it's borders are applied to a flat map, the corrections to the projection distort the otherwise straight borders.
Well thanks Gerardus Mercator, but I heard you died in the C16th?
KAMSPioneer t1_j3c0lsd wrote
Yeah but that fact isn't nearly as fun.
Makersmound t1_j3c174k wrote
LanvinSean t1_j3c20il wrote
697-gon is way easier to pronounce, though.
DuoMaxwell22333 t1_j3c3boz wrote
Takes one to know one :)
EternamD t1_j3c3vi2 wrote
An irregular hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon I might add
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SquirrelGirlSucks t1_j3c6wj2 wrote
Yeah no that’s a square. No stupid science or math bitches are convincing me otherwise.
viral_virus t1_j3c72l1 wrote
Now do Virginia
flipflapslap t1_j3c7yei wrote
Not 1 or 2 or 3 but 4! 4 sides!
CinnnaBunn t1_j3c9emq wrote
Bless you
_Not_Not_Sag t1_j3c9zw1 wrote
I like your funny words, mister magic man.
Omnus89 t1_j3cd3ty wrote
This is just a dramatic way of saying it's jagged.
BrotherItsInTheDrum t1_j3cdzjf wrote
It's like saying why do we have a word for "six hundred ninety seven." The different components of the name just mean six hundred ninety seven, all smudged together.
Lkwzriqwea t1_j3cfio3 wrote
TIL Colorado is non-Euclidean
OptimusPhillip t1_j3cfv85 wrote
I think I've heard this one before. It was intended to be a rectangle, bounded by four specific lines of latitude and longitude, but the surveyors, due to limited technology, were a little off in where they placed the border markers, giving it way more (very small) corners than it was supposed to have.
PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ t1_j3cievr wrote
Not exactly on topic, but you're right. The more you measure the coastline on England, the longer it gets! Fractals are weird!
Bonesmash t1_j3citap wrote
This is how my high school geometry teacher told us to refer to any polygons where the number of sides is greater than 12. It’s easier to remember for sure!
MangoSea323 t1_j3cokoz wrote
This could be reposted every day and noone would remember.
HughJaynus1nOnly t1_j3cvf95 wrote
Yes, that is perfect thank you
BigGreenBallOfLuck t1_j3cy79n wrote
Thank god for that, I'll sleep well tonight.
RookieCards t1_j3d1e13 wrote
It does! It just also has 693 more.
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Rig-check t1_j3d6a2s wrote
Such a one sided story
Dezpeche t1_j3dec61 wrote
That's a cool password if you can even remember it.
a_seventh_knot t1_j3dflvf wrote
yup. n-gon
c_delta t1_j3dg2da wrote
24 sides, you say?
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FelixSineculpa t1_j3do2i1 wrote
Colothulu
Nobody_Speshal t1_j3dpg75 wrote
It looks like that from high up but I’m guessing it means that it actually isn’t as straight as we think due to imprecise methods used when originally making the border
LetsTryScience t1_j3dxcqx wrote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake
This idea applies. Area approaches 8/5 of original triangle while perimeter approaches infinity.
This has also come up with the length of hiking trails. Several people hiked the PCT using rotating wheels to measure and even they came up with different lengths.
GregorianShant t1_j3dyj09 wrote
By that logic, basically every object in the world is a Hexadecainfintesimaloctogon, because if you zoom in far enough, you will find infinitesimal edges.
But pedantry aside, it has 4 fucking edges.
Jaspers47 t1_j3dztez wrote
Some time in the 19th century, some asshole mapmaker tried to draw the borders but didn't want to use a ruler
gualdhar t1_j3e0cr8 wrote
It could have been surveying errors as well. Not like surveyors had GPS when the borders were finalized.
Natomiast t1_j3e1gza wrote
unless you're a greek person, then you have to name it pretty the same way anyway
spookynovember t1_j3e7xok wrote
It's not any-gon, because it is wrapped onto a sphere.
slinger301 t1_j3e8g3g wrote
Researchers are close to developing a 4-dimensional hypercolorado.
HauserAspen t1_j3eaui8 wrote
What the hell are we supposed to do with an empty hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon?
osi_layer_one t1_j3ec7x9 wrote
the fact that we have a word for this shape just blows my mind...
richg0404 t1_j3eom41 wrote
Well NOW they do.
herbw t1_j3es2p8 wrote
ANY polygon by strict geometric definition is 2 D planar; & imposing 2 D on a spherical, provably 3 D surface does Not have polygonal edges.
The typical print madia journo defects. Ignoring the Spherical shape of earth, thus concluding the facts that the EARTH is Round does not happen.
Facts are, there are NO proven evidences of that many sides. Show us the real, existing sides by photography. Those are not there. Imposed, illusions. Caca del toro Post SOS on the utube, which hasn't the slightest credibility. Credulous yes. Truth no.
Provably the Spherical quadrangle of CO is the case. There is no polygon because polygons are 2D.
I mean it's just so easy to show the post is wrong. 1900 upvotes mean 1900 were wrong.
Gee, that's a terrible outcome & measures utter ignorance.
Which means that without substantiation, nothin here is reliable but to the credulous. The lines on a 2 D quadrangle do NOT meet. In the 3D world the N/S lines meet at the poles.
Thus we can also, truly conclude the NE and NW corners are closer than the SE and SW corners of Both CO and Wyoming.
IT'S that simple and geometrical & the case. A polygon? BS. A spherical quadrangle, likely.
herbw t1_j3esku2 wrote
That needs a MMPI to Dx.
herbw t1_j3estdq wrote
Earth is spherical. Round not a rectangle which is 2D. There lies the disparity. Longitude is NOT 2D.
herbw t1_j3eszzx wrote
I did VA. But nothing happened. Still, best place to live and love east US. VA is for lovers.
herbw t1_j3et6jq wrote
heptagon is a polygon. 2D. CO and WY are spherical geometries.
herbw t1_j3etb22 wrote
Not really just SOS lack of verification. utube is not the case.
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Mmm_Intresting t1_j3eul07 wrote
i went str8 to google and asked how to pronounce it lol
Mmm_Intresting t1_j3eurip wrote
lol luv it lol
herbw t1_j3evp9a wrote
We can ignore errors & false comments any time we choose. Point them out and move back into reality.
herbw t1_j3evvax wrote
why do dogs lick themselves? Because they can.
We call that egregious mental wanking.
herbw t1_j3ew09g wrote
The truest critique is the best one,
herbw t1_j3ewiyo wrote
nope. Those are implied micro corrections to a false 2D system imposed on a sphere. Beautiful curved, smooth spherical lines is what they can do. Rest is all SOThe Bull.
herbw t1_j3ewokp wrote
fire a logical blunder buss and the whole thing falls.
Mmm_Intresting t1_j3ewoum wrote
herbw t1_j3ewr3g wrote
well, in the Cairo Museum there are mummies who are daddies.
Mmm_Intresting t1_j3ewrhz wrote
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herbw t1_j3exbks wrote
Perfect circles do not exist. Idealisms are not real. That is another reason that Math , as Godel showed, is not complete, not always applicable, and occ. wrong.
Einstein a great empirical visual thinker said this. To the extent math is accurate it's useful. To the extent it's precise, it's not real. This einsteinian concept easily proves and is proven by the disparities between Maps and the features they pretend to show.
Mercator projections are not real. It distorts features. Either.
For instance if we look at 90 Deg map on the point directly below us, over a globe all the edges are distorted. If we move over 100 miles, worse. What we've mapped before is distorted and what we see 90 below us is NOT the same as 100 Miles East or west. Nor is the southern edge nor north edge.
So we do successive corrections and get an approximation. But it's never quite right. The flat map paper we lay down to read is Not exact either. Imposing that same 90 deg 2D flat map problem. See? Accurate, useful but assuming real goes too far.
As is said, what you measure depends by Einsteinian, true relativity, cannot be correct. There is NO absolute measure. There is NO absolute space/time. That space on the maps is a measure of that highly likely, by proven Relativity.
Thus ALL the flat maps we use are Wrongl! because they impose the Flat 2d, 90 deg but not spherical map on paper. National geo Maps are flat. The Earth is round, thus ALL OUR maps are not quite right.
So our maps' errors show the relativity of measuring methods. Missed that, dintcha!!
Mmm_Intresting t1_j3exl96 wrote
pm_me_gnus t1_j3ey5m8 wrote
Yours, mine, the truth, Steve's, Becky's, Kumal's...
herbw t1_j3ezs8c wrote
Natural boundaries such as river and lake sea coasts are not stable, set, nor precisely measurable.
Most competent map makers are aware of that. Not so 99% here.
herbw t1_j3ezx1n wrote
worthless, not accurate quasi info. It's an approximation and as such not quite right.
herbw t1_j3f02iu wrote
BS, longitudinal lines are approximations. We cannot draw a spherical map on a 2 D flat surface. An Approx but still wrong.
starmartyr t1_j3f3bej wrote
That isn't what is happening here. Colorado's border was defined by congress as 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude. That is effectively a trapezoid or at least as close to one that can be drawn on a globe. That shape does have 4 edges as you say. However, when they went to survey the land errors were made. 19th-century surveyors would stray from the legal border by as much as half a mile in some places and would correct it by making a couple of near 90-degree turns to correct this. Congress then accepted the survey boundaries as the legal boundaries making it have more than 4 edges.
starmartyr t1_j3f3p57 wrote
That's not correct. The borders aren't perfectly straight. This is due to 19th-century surveying errors rather than flat map distortion. You can see the jagged edges if you zoom in close enough on google earth.
starmartyr t1_j3f46vh wrote
Nope. Those are errors and corrections made by 19th-century surveyors who didn't have the benefit of gps satellites or aerial photography.
starmartyr t1_j3f4u88 wrote
That's more or less accurate.
djdefenda t1_j3f7y4a wrote
Slym12312425 t1_j3f8j5z wrote
My wife- you have no life. My son- gesundheit.
MrDowntown t1_j3fdl0w wrote
> 25°W to 32°W longitude
from the Washington Meridian. An important note.
OptimusPhillip t1_j3fdntg wrote
Okay, fair enough. The shape bounded by four lines of latitude and longitude on one hemisphere of a circle is not a rectangle. Even in a non-Euclidean spherical plane, it's not a rectangle (since latitude lines aren't great circles). That said, OP described Colorado's true shape as a polygon, so they're quite clearly referring to the imperfect survey thing, and not the fact that Colorado can't be a Euclidean rectangle.
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drfsupercenter t1_j3fm7tm wrote
O...kay, I'm just saying that all 50 states can be measured by X number of sides, not just Colorado.
Common_Pickle1202 t1_j3fnhs5 wrote
Nope. Straight rectangle. Surveyed on foot, using chains.
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[deleted] t1_j3g6ihu wrote
This doesn’t make any sense. And I got downvoted for asking this? Man, what’s wrong with some of you
LancelLannister_AMA t1_j3gmfo0 wrote
BOIOIOIOIOIOING
arbivark t1_j3hrfmq wrote
hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, 24 letters.
jaredpolis t1_j3jno4v wrote
And I love each and every side!
[deleted] t1_j3jphhw wrote
Holy hell I'm putting this moment on my resume
aurora_avenue_north t1_j3tp6qm wrote
We love you too ♥️
Objective-Guidance78 t1_j39loof wrote
I’m putting Kentucky as a contender for the most