Tag: math
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Judging 4D shapes
In my previous post, I decided to be judgmental about various 2D and 3D geometric shapes. This post, we’re extending this to 4D geometric shapes. As before, we are judging these shapes emotionally, aesthetically, and morally. But, how can you judge a 4D shape if you can’t make one in our universe of 3 spatial…
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Being judgmental about geometric shapes
I love geometric shapes. There are shapes you learn about in kindergarten (square, circle, triangle), but there are way more shapes out there. You have Klein bottles and tesseracts and truncated icosidoedecahedra – oh my! Recently I was rereading my college thesis on geometry, and I thought that it sounded really judgmental of certain shapes.…
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A formula for round numbers
A “round number” is a number that you’d round something off to. For example, 100 is very round: it’s intuitive to say that 98 or 103 are both about 100. 17 is not round: if you knew there are 18 people in a room, saying that there are “about 17” is more confusing, not less.…