Triangles

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Have 3 sides. Does anyone disagree?

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

A triangle is a strange concept when you think about it. Triangles don't happen in nature, do they?

(I think we can all agree that it's too long since we had a thread on geometry.)

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

grabec wrote:

A triangle is a strange concept when you think about it. Triangles don't happen in nature, do they?

(I think we can all agree that it's too long since we had a thread on geometry.)

Suppose you could argue if any perfect shapes happen in nature?

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

grabec wrote:

A triangle is a strange concept when you think about it. Triangles don't happen in nature, do they?

(I think we can all agree that it's too long since we had a thread on geometry.)

Do strawberries count?

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Or stalactites or stalagmites? Or mountains? Whenever I draw them, which admittedly is quite infrequently, I always draw a triangle.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

pooliecrab wrote:

Or stalactites or stalagmites? Or mountains? Whenever I draw them, which admittedly is quite infrequently, I always draw a triangle.

dO THEIR INNER ANGLES ADD UP TO 180 DEGREES?

Fucking caps, where is the 'degree' button anyway on a keyboard?

Jhumps84 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:40 pm

Beehives tend to have hexagonal shapes internally to help with structure. i guess that's naturally occurring in a way. Starfish are well a star for some reason. Bound to be circles and squares kicking about. But triangles, i can't think of any.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Jhumps84 wrote:

Beehives tend to have hexagonal shapes internally to help with structure. i guess that's naturally occurring in a way. Starfish are well a star for some reason. Bound to be circles and squares kicking about. But triangles, i can't think of any.

Starfish arms.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:06 pm

https://www.google.es/search?redir_esc= ... r+crystals

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:14 pm

I am quite fond of the natural phenomonon of the hairy triangle, I have studied it at length and can confirm it is a wonder to behold :razz:

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

I see the points about mountains and crystals and star fish arms. Strawberries, even.

But, you see my argument....none of these things can really be imagined to have inspired Euclid to study triangles. They are all far too 3-D for Euclid.

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:25 pm

grabec wrote:

I see the points about mountains and crystals and star fish arms. Strawberries, even.

But, you see my argument....none of these things can really be imagined to have inspired Euclid to study triangles. They are all far too 3-D for Euclid.

I bet Euclid studied his fair share of hairy triangle, they didn`t do razors in them days and would have been unkempt and dairylea shaped, what you reckon?

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

monkeybutt wrote:

grabec wrote:

I see the points about mountains and crystals and star fish arms. Strawberries, even.

But, you see my argument....none of these things can really be imagined to have inspired Euclid to study triangles. They are all far too 3-D for Euclid.

I bet Euclid studied his fair share of hairy triangle, they didn`t do razors in them days and would have been unkempt and dairylea shaped, what you reckon?

I'm not convinced Dairylea are naturally occurring. As for things being 3D, surely everything in nature is 3D?
Is there anything in nature that is truely square? If so fold it in half from one corner to another to find the answer you seek.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:55 pm

Surely Mr Pythagoras was the Einstein of triangles. And the word is he was rather fond of nachos.

paulus the woodgnome and a side salad · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:04 pm

Why are cheese triangles called so when they are infact what is called a sector

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Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:37 pm

Non-Euclidian geometry, Mr Joke, though I doubt the person who called them triangles was aware any such thing exists.

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