TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1dfyzb wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:16 PM

Reply to comment by WolfHunter17 in I have a phobia of edges by sladeshied

A circle is the limit of a regular n-gon as n approaches infinity.

WolfHunter17 t1_j1dgoeh wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:21 PM

Precisely what I said :p

TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1dhbpx wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:26 PM

It's not. "A bunch" implies a finite number. Any n-gon with a finite number of edges is not a circle.

WolfHunter17 t1_j1dik3n wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:36 PM

Woah, do tell me more!

TrixicAcePolyamEnby t1_j1djmi5 wrote on December 23, 2022 at 2:44 PM

I teach college math, my guy. I'm just trying to educate here. You had the right idea, but the wording was problematic and incomplete.

WolfHunter17 t1_j1dmo5m wrote on December 23, 2022 at 3:06 PM

While I appreciate the concern, I feel like this was not really the place to do it, my guy/gal/enby. Taking aside the fact that the wording was quite fine considering we're speaking here of a physical approximation of a circle and not the mathematical concept of one, we are on /r/jokes. Not really the place to be pedantic about stuff like this.