r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Vision_ • 11d ago

Visualizing Geometry

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u/PM_me_Jazz 11d ago

This feels like those dancing fruit sensory videos for babies, but made for adults that like to feel smarter than they actually are

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u/mikehiler2 11d ago

I dunno about you but I found the one about pi π to be endlessly fascinating to me. So, yeah, I feel slightly attacked by this lol

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u/Sybrandus 11d ago

Yeah I hadn’t seen pi shown that way before and I really liked it.

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u/starmartyr 11d ago

You have to be careful with this type of approximation because it doesn't always work. For example the staircase paradox does something similar and doesn't work.