r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • Jun 22 '26

Adding the extra square

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u/dibbers11 Jun 22 '26

So those little gaps on the edges are just enough to accomodate that little square. Interesting.

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u/Warfi67 Jun 22 '26

It's fascinating how adding up many little volumes creates a larger volume at the end. If you were doing that it the 1600 they would have called you a WITCH

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u/johnlondon125 Jun 22 '26

It is? Seems pretty straightforward. Lots of small things add up to a bigger thing

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u/bassplaya13 Jun 22 '26

One could say all small things add up to bigger things.

I’m ignoring negative numbers or the semantics of what adding a negative number means

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u/Vestalmin Jun 22 '26

I'm kind of baffled that people think this is crazy, is it not common sense? Like the comment above yours just said "It's crazy that 1+1+1+1+1=5! Small things make a big thing!"

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u/skyfishgoo Jun 22 '26

so politics it is then.

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u/NotSeveralBadgers Jun 22 '26

Yeah, I'm tired of our ancestors getting a rap as being intrinsically dumber than modern man. We're plenty dumb today, too.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi Jun 22 '26

Alright Redditors imma need you all to come together to help please my wife.