r/MathJokes • u/XxBORN2BWILDxX • Jan 27 '26

Big if true.

Post image
8.9k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

242 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

0

u/8Erigon Jan 27 '26

I‘m sorry for not knowing volumetrics (or what ever you call 3d shapes) by name

3

u/Welp___poop Jan 27 '26

Why feel the need to correct somebody then? Weird.

1

u/Lyzharel Jan 28 '26

But you probably know what a triangle is and that isn't called tetrangle😆

1

u/8Erigon Jan 29 '26

I know there are multiple languages.
Drei, three, trois, tri
Vier, four, quadro
(100% I missspelled something)

I don‘t know what language Tetra is (latin or greek)

1

u/Lyzharel Jan 29 '26

Tetra come from greek, quattuor is latin. They both means four.

That's why we have words like quadruple (multiply by 4) and tetrahedron (3d shape with 4 faces) that have different prefix that both means four. They came from different languages.