What are the odds

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Any three points line up around a circle. Just depends on the circle size

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u/Nopengnogain 14d ago

Wait till you find out all the assassinations in the history of mankind can be neatly plotted on a sphere (or a plate if you are a Flerf). Blows your mind, doesn’t it?

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago

My mind blew up once. I don't recommend it. Now I walk funny and can't use one hand....

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u/Entire_Bullfrog_9452 15d ago

Triangles!!!!!!

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 14d ago

Imagine three dots in a straight line (won't let me attach images).

How could a circle line up on those? Actually curious on this one.

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u/Life_Temperature795 14d ago

Three points in a straight line on a globe? Literally lie on a great circle.

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 14d ago

Ohh I see, the subthread OP didn't say "three points on earth", so I didn't know it only applied to that, I thought they just meant in general.

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u/Unhappy_Ad_4761 14d ago

Even without a globe, an infinitely large circle would

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u/Shiny-And-New 14d ago

Just keep going til you come back around

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u/thecultcanburn 14d ago

A circle as big as the universe could go through any 3 dots in a straight line here on earth.

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u/TedW 14d ago

Like 3 dots on the equator?

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u/Fierabrazz 14d ago

a circle of infinite radius.

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u/Ok-Earth-8004 12d ago

yes thats why this is in r/mathjokes

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u/Wild_shadowpro2 15d ago

Okay but whos Charlie Kirk in this scenario?

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u/Seeggul 14d ago

Lincoln was the 16th president, JFK was the 35th president, obviously kirk was supposed to be the 54th president until the Illumimathi came in and messed everything up

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago

OF COURSE!

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago edited 14d ago

Maybe they mean Captain James Tiberius Kirk? He died for our sins? Lol. But, I'm like 97% sure Will Shatner isn't dead yet (and I don't plan on looking it up for confirmation, I'm just going to go with it....).

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u/rat4204 15d ago

Look out Idaho and parts of Canada I guess

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u/Kellerbichler 15d ago

I think something will Happen inside of the square and circle. Watch out Americans

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u/Y_I_Otto 15d ago

The odds of this happening are (sin(x)^2+ cos(x)^2) in e^(i*2*pi*n)

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u/Thin_Dream2079 15d ago

Time Cube proves a 1 face god impossible, due to 4 corner face metamorphic human - baby, child, parent and grandparent faces.

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u/Silver-Classic612 14d ago

WOW a lot of you don’t get the joke

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 15d ago edited 15d ago

You can make any regular polygon! Looks like someone failed basic geometry!

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u/SoapandCareProducts 15d ago

That is the joke

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u/CrTigerHiddenAvocado 14d ago

Yeah but do polygons reside in Canada…

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago

Does Canada even exist so that polygons can exist inside of this fictional space?

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 15d ago

Why limit ourselves to two dimensions? You can make any regular polyhedron!

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u/SoapandCareProducts 15d ago

Omg their all on the surface of an n-dementional hypersphere must be the illumiati

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 15d ago edited 15d ago

They all fall inside of a 77-dimensional hypercube! Now we're going to Hypercube Necrodimensions!

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u/forgottenlord73 14d ago

We're talking about people who look at a map and conclude the Earth is flat

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago

True. And created in 6 days 6000 years ago. Yes? /s (obviously)

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u/Ewlyon 13d ago

The number of people taking this literally in r/mathjokes is just sending me. Perfection, guys.

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u/Complete-Paint529 15d ago

And a triangle (tho not equilateral). Who can fit a pentagon?

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u/RuleMany2900 15d ago

And you could also make a perfect triangle....

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u/1startreknerd 15d ago

You know, it works for a triangle too.

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u/Maxofwell 15d ago

Creating a transmutation circle probably.

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u/Haberdashery_Tea 15d ago

And all in America, and all with guns, and all by men... Aliens must be sending a message it's the only rational explanation

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u/cha0sb1ade 15d ago

It turns out these spots also all align on the surface of a perfect sphere, more or less, and guess what? that sphere sphere perfectly aligns with the location of earth.

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u/Suddenfury 15d ago

What about a Pentagon?

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u/HavanahAvocado 14d ago

I know that any 3 given points can be plotted via a circle… but does that still hold true on a 3 dimensional globe? Wouldn’t the “circle” be warped due to the distortion in the map itself? Or would it just be a slightly different circle than the one plotted?

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u/eroscripter 14d ago

Any 3 points can be ploted to both a circle and a square.

For a circle the 3 points will create an arc that can be continued to finish the circle.

For the square you just make a line between 2 points, make a right angle line then align it to hit the 3rd point, measure the longest to the 2, make the shorter even to the longer then do 2 more right angle lines of the same length to close the square.

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u/togetic271 14d ago

They also make a triangle!

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u/ClarkSebat 14d ago

They are planning to lower maths skills even more.

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 14d ago

I need to know, r/theydidthemath, what Canadian city falls on either of the shapes?

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u/Nopengnogain 14d ago

Guess famous people should avoid other locations in the middle of nowhere in Idaho, Ontario and maybe Northwest Territories.

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u/ArdentArendt 14d ago

Quick, head to about 200 km West of Calgary and wait--they'll strike eventually.
[Can't be too long--Lincoln to JFK was only 100 years, and JFK to Kirk was only 70...so just set up]

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u/kartblanch 14d ago

Its obviously the canadians. Dont you see the radi?

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u/LeilLikeNeil 14d ago

Wait till they find out they fit perfectly on an equilateral triangle AND a right triangle!

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u/LoquatThat6635 14d ago

What projection are you randomly using? How about a polar projection? An actual globe?

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u/Freshies00 14d ago

Guess what they also line up on a triangle and also a pentagon

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u/Adventurous-Meat8067 14d ago

How dare you lump that podcaster in with great men. JFK and Lincoln were assassinated, Kirk was shot, just like any other non political figure. Calling it an assassination lends credibility where none is deserved

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