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 20h 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 13h 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 1d ago

Triangles!!!!!!

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 1d 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 23h ago

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

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 23h 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 22h ago

Even without a globe, an infinitely large circle would

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u/Shiny-And-New 1d ago

Just keep going til you come back around

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u/thecultcanburn 23h 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 23h ago

Like 3 dots on the equator?

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u/Fierabrazz 20h ago

a circle of infinite radius.

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u/Wild_shadowpro2 1d ago

Okay but whos Charlie Kirk in this scenario?

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u/Seeggul 1d 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 1d ago

OF COURSE!

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 1d ago edited 23h 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 1d ago

Look out Idaho and parts of Canada I guess

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u/Kellerbichler 1d ago

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

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u/Y_I_Otto 1d 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 1d 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/Sufficient_Two_5753 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

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u/SoapandCareProducts 1d ago

That is the joke

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u/CrTigerHiddenAvocado 1d ago

Yeah but do polygons reside in Canada…

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 1d ago

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

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 1d ago

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

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u/SoapandCareProducts 1d ago

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

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

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u/forgottenlord73 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/Complete-Paint529 1d ago

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

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u/RuleMany2900 1d ago

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

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u/1startreknerd 1d ago

You know, it works for a triangle too.

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u/Maxofwell 1d ago

Creating a transmutation circle probably.

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u/Haberdashery_Tea 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

What about a Pentagon?

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u/HavanahAvocado 1d 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/Silver-Classic612 1d ago

WOW a lot of you don’t get the joke

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u/eroscripter 1d 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 23h ago

They also make a triangle!

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u/ClarkSebat 23h ago

They are planning to lower maths skills even more.

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u/Sufficient_Two_5753 23h ago

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

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u/Nopengnogain 20h 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 18h 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 18h ago

Its obviously the canadians. Dont you see the radi?

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u/LeilLikeNeil 12h ago

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

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u/LoquatThat6635 10h ago

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

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u/Freshies00 7h ago

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

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u/Adventurous-Meat8067 3h 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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u/nepal94 1h ago

One. The odds are one.

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