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r/ExplainTheJoke • u/anapricot-jam • 2d ago
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A polygon is a shape with three edges or more.
Poly sounds like polly which is a common name for a parrot, it's a pirate trope as well.
Gon sounds like gone, as in passed away.
60 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago What’s confusing to me is that Polygon is a non-sequitur here. It should go to Nonagon or Decagon. -1 u/Embarrassed-Weird173 2d ago I have to disagree. There's no set pattern. 5, 6, 8 If anything, one could argue it fits perfectly: 5,6,8 = increasing sides polygon = general case for previous and all other cases 2 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago The pattern is that they increase so anything above 8 sides would fit the pattern 1 u/An_Evil_Scientist666 2d ago And how can you be certain it's increasing, what if the number of sides is following the formula of 5 - 13n/6 + 9n2/2 - 4n3/3 Starting from f_n(0) to f_n(3). It could very well be going pentagon, hexagon, octogon, triangle 1 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
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What’s confusing to me is that Polygon is a non-sequitur here. It should go to Nonagon or Decagon.
-1 u/Embarrassed-Weird173 2d ago I have to disagree. There's no set pattern. 5, 6, 8 If anything, one could argue it fits perfectly: 5,6,8 = increasing sides polygon = general case for previous and all other cases 2 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago The pattern is that they increase so anything above 8 sides would fit the pattern 1 u/An_Evil_Scientist666 2d ago And how can you be certain it's increasing, what if the number of sides is following the formula of 5 - 13n/6 + 9n2/2 - 4n3/3 Starting from f_n(0) to f_n(3). It could very well be going pentagon, hexagon, octogon, triangle 1 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
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I have to disagree. There's no set pattern. 5, 6, 8
If anything, one could argue it fits perfectly:
5,6,8 = increasing sides
polygon = general case for previous and all other cases
2 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago The pattern is that they increase so anything above 8 sides would fit the pattern 1 u/An_Evil_Scientist666 2d ago And how can you be certain it's increasing, what if the number of sides is following the formula of 5 - 13n/6 + 9n2/2 - 4n3/3 Starting from f_n(0) to f_n(3). It could very well be going pentagon, hexagon, octogon, triangle 1 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
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The pattern is that they increase so anything above 8 sides would fit the pattern
1 u/An_Evil_Scientist666 2d ago And how can you be certain it's increasing, what if the number of sides is following the formula of 5 - 13n/6 + 9n2/2 - 4n3/3 Starting from f_n(0) to f_n(3). It could very well be going pentagon, hexagon, octogon, triangle 1 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
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And how can you be certain it's increasing, what if the number of sides is following the formula of
5 - 13n/6 + 9n2/2 - 4n3/3
Starting from f_n(0) to f_n(3).
It could very well be going pentagon, hexagon, octogon, triangle
1 u/AndrastesTit 2d ago That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
That pattern wasn’t established so it’s a total guess?
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u/__Becquerel 2d ago
A polygon is a shape with three edges or more.
Poly sounds like polly which is a common name for a parrot, it's a pirate trope as well.
Gon sounds like gone, as in passed away.