­xkcd thread

As the acorn from Mississippi said when it grew up:

“Gee, ah’m a tree!”

They’re definitely closer to circles than, say, octagons. Circles have no corners, triangles have three, and octagons have 8. So a triangle is very nearly a circle in that respect.

Or do circles have an infinite number of corners?

Stop trying to integrate corners into circles.

I thought we were trying to differentiate triangles from circles.

Seems to me we’re just triangulating here.

You people are triggering me.

If things get exponentially sillier will we reach some sort of limit?

Everyone here who hasn’t read Flatland by Edwin Abbott should do so at once,

No need to take sides here.

Ooh.

Needlessly pointed comment.

When I read this thread, I only get about 10% of the jokes.

On a good day.

I also recommend the much more elaborate and carefully thought out novel The Planiverse, which goes into elaborate detail about how physics, biology and technology could work in a 2-dimensional world.

I never noticed before that “crème brûlée” uses all three accents. And in a visually symmetrical way.

There are five accents in French: the acute/aigu, grave, and circumflex/circonflexe found in crème brûlée, plus the trema/tréma (“ë”) and cedilla/cédille (“ç”). :slight_smile:

Oops. Thanks.

Easily fixed.

“çrèmë brûlée”

But I’m not going to vouch for how it’s now pronounced.

A tréma or a cédille is unquestionably a diacritical mark, but how is it an accent?

The upcoming America Clipper mission has a spork.