• fishos@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      A triangle with 90° angles, yes.

      But not a four sided TRIANGLE. That itself is a contradiction.

      • TheDankHold@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        One of the angles is 180 though so imagine what the two sides joined there would look like. After all this isn’t to scale.

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          You can’t make a 3 sided object with 4 sides. It’s no longer a triangle and is a square. It’s the definitions themselves. Non-euclidian geometry would allow the angles to equal more than 180°, but not to “add a side”.

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            1 year ago

            “Not to scale”

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            Incase that is still a mystery to you, that means that the drawing is visually inconsistent with the finished part. That 180 degree ‘corner’ is effectively a straight line, if drawn to scale.

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            1 year ago

            Mathematicians dont want to to know this one strange trick, hide a secret corner of 180 degrees in any triangle to instantly make it a quadrilateral, without even changing the shape!!

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      1 year ago

      The 180° angle is just a (really weird) way of representing a long, straight, line. The rest of the angles add up to 180°.