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minus-squareNougat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up44·1 year ago“Having many more right triangles for a unit length” would have an incredible benefit in constructing enormous triangly things.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoInstead becoming more acute about triangly things… we were more obtuse and went base ten
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoWell yeah, who’s got 60 fingers? I mean sure, there’s Fingers Georg, but that guy’s weird.
minus-square8BitRoadTrip@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoNow I’m wondering why the Babylonians didn’t have giant triangle shaped orbital habitats.
“Having many more right triangles for a unit length” would have an incredible benefit in constructing enormous triangly things.
Instead becoming more acute about triangly things… we were more obtuse and went base ten
Well yeah, who’s got 60 fingers? I mean sure, there’s Fingers Georg, but that guy’s weird.
Now I’m wondering why the Babylonians didn’t have giant triangle shaped orbital habitats.