I changed my excel cells to be rhombuses
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Does it still work on vertical rows and columns, or are they both diagonal now?
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All shapes will be hunted down to extinction until the one and only remains.
Yeah, it's pretty good. But it's not a hexagon, which is the bestagon...
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Looked around my room
Stacks of books
Rectangular posters with rectangles on them
Windows, curtains, television
Then i saw the plaid shorts i am wearing and had a good laugh
And then the ceiling and the walls and the floor and the door, and the light switch...
If obsession with rectangles makes one human, my cats are definitely human too.
Wait until they find out it's all actually triangles
The only thing that's greater than humanity's obsession with rectangles, is computers' obsession with triangles.
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Every square you ever met is a rhombus that gave up its art career and got a boring 9-5.
someone doesn't watch jacksucksatlife and jacksucksatstuff
You know what they say, all busses go to Rhome
If I ever have my own home, my house will have a rhombus room.
"Don't you mean a rumpus room?"
Bro, that's not even a real shape.
This person hasn't done math past elementary.
It's not even doing math, just watching science videos etc. is enough to hear the word every now and then. This is surely a person who has no interest in learning overall.
I went up to Calculus I in college (along with some physics and engineering), and I've done a bit of amateur math outside of school ... but the concept of a rhombus was still used exactly zero times.
The engineers prefer triangles, the physicists prefer circles, and the pure mathematicians are usually dealing with weird shapes that don't even have names. Who uses the rhombus?
Right there with you, I didn't use it in analytical geometry, calcs 1-3, diff eqs, or numerical methods. I don't think it would have shown up in my other math classes either. I'm pretty sure the rhombus is nothing more than a happy shape.
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A rhombus is just an equilateral parallelogram, and parallelograms are the easiest way to approach vector cross products. And you're 3/4 of the way there when you do tip-to-tail vector addition. They should have come up at least a couple times in geometry. Rhombi pop up as faces in lots of polyhedra, and tiles in lattices. I don't know much about crystallography, but I'm sure they make an appearance.
Yeah and we engineers love parallelograms, but not as much as triangles.
Now that I think of it, when doing lattice structures in Chemistry, many sections would have given rhombuses.
But still, never used the name even over there.
This is true for most parallelograms and later polygons.
Daughter just went through parts of middle school that seemed to focus on things like rhombuses and trapezoids. The only thing I"m thinking, as an engineer, is when was the last time I gave af about any of those shapes? I would just reduce them to triangles and rectangles.
Trig skills are WAY more useful than knowing how to calculate specific polygon shapes..... I don't mean to say that middle schoolers should be learning trig... just that the time spent learning how to do specific shapes is a literal waste of time that they could be using to prepare for later things (like trig).
As someone in education i would bet money that since it is a vocabulary word with a simple definition in a subject that is hard to teach, it is included to make things easier on the teachers and students. Mind you easier isnt often a good thing, and in this case I'd say its lazy and irresponsible to focus on things that don't scaffold well or have much practical use
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They're not really mentioned in more advanced math. It's all polygons.
Ok, triangles are often treated as a special case. But for anything else it's a n-sided polygon.
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"So now what was a love triangle is more of a love rhombus" - Amphibia
Isn't a rhombus just what you call a diamond that's having a bad day?
Rhombus deez nuts
Every 3 ft square box that you shoved a bunch of 3.25 ft long irregularly shaped items into then closed the flaps on is a rhombus.
Rhombuses are really commonly used in trigonometry puzzles. You know, "Here's a bunch of lines and a couple of angles, find the angle at X."
Some pretty rhombus logic if you ask me
When I played "Psychonauts: In the Rhombus of Ruin" I got reminded again that this thing actually exists.
It's also called diamond or zoomie square. You know, cuz it's like a square that's going so fast the pointy parts start at the tippy top
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