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to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

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Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

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  • aggelalex@lemmy.world
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    Believe it or not, there are shapes for which this isn’t possible, like most letters of the Latin alphabet

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      But if I shrink it enough it won’t matter.

      • aggelalex@lemmy.world
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        Only if the letters have thickness. If they are just 2 dimensional lines (which is the minimal information to construct a letter), you’ll have to shrink it to infinity into a single point.

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      I’m confused

      Surely if you can make something smaller, you could make it fit inside anything bigger than it?

      Or do I not have the assumptions down?

      Do the lines count as “borders”?

      So Like Q,R,O,A etc. have “holes” but Z, X, I, L etc are just lines with no enclosure

      That would make sense

      I thought maybe the rules were if you spray paint a huge L on the wall you could draw a little L on it with chalk when it dries

      Sorry , just thinking out loud

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        Assuming we shrink all spacial dimensions equally: With Z, the diagonal will also shrink so that the two horizontal lines would be closer together and then you could not fit them into the original horizontal lines anymore. Only once you shrink the Z far enough that it would fit within the line-width could you fit it into itself again. X I and L all work at any arbitrary amount of shrinking though.

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          T, V, Y can be shrunk by any amount and still fit aswell! Possibly even K depending on the font.

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            Each Geometrie in which a Single point can see each other point works. Every other geometry has at least 1 point which violates this.

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        Basically any convex shape has a big/small size configuration in which one doesn’t fit in another

        Or in other words: if you can’t draw a line between the center and the edge that intersects with another edge, the shape is guaranteed to fit a smaller version of itself

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      I, K, L, T, V, X, Y are all the one’s I think (with I and K depending on how you write them).

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    TIL that the shape of Africa looks like Africa

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      🎵 I note the shape down in Aaafrica!

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      Here’s another fact for you:

      ɐɔᴉɹɟ∀ is the same as Africa but upside down and backwards

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        🤯

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      YOU FUCKING LIAR!

      • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        Look man, I’m just quoting something I read online.

        If you’re such a skeptic, why don’t you check my source???

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    Another fun fact: the pictured orientation of that smaller version of Africa is the only one that you can use to produce that picture.

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      depending on how much leeway you have no? you’d turn it a few degrees as long as you have enough space to

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        I think you got wooshed

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          oh, “produce that picture” means that exact picture not a similar representation of it

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    It actually doesnt. This ignores the lakes and rivers

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      And you really should stick to those, like you used to. None of that waterfall chasing folly.

      • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        No way would a Viking be against waterfalls.

        Ah this ones a hippie

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          I have nothing against waterfalls! I just realize that chasing them is both no challenge at all (since they tend to stay in place) and extremely challenging to do unscathed 🤷

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            Look… I know you’re gonna have it your way or nothing at all, but I think you’re moving too fast.

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              That’s what I said to the guy sprinting headlong towards Victoria Falls!

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        Love the use of those lyrics here.

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    Africa is Australia turned 45 degrees clockwise

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      except on the southern hemisphere where it is counterclockwise because of the Coriolis force

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        Not if the earth is flat!

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    Please spread the word, and together we can stop this!

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    pulls out ruler

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    Goddamn

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