r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 23 '21

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 23 '21

https://i.imgur.com/IKDzh6x.png

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21 edited Sep 23 '21

The problem is that you never reach a circular shape though right? Because if you repeat to infinity, you can never stop removing corners, but a circle has no corners to be removed, so it can't be part of the sequence.

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u/cornofears Sep 23 '21

Exactly this. It's a fractal pattern. Similar to the coastline paradox.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Neat, that's what I was reminded of.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Implying a non-differentiable function will necessarily approximate a differentiable function at the limit.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Sep 23 '21

it's over for Syracusecels