The Great Circle Gang War

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The Great Circle Gang War

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The mathematical gang war nobody asked for but everyone needed! This meme brilliantly pits two mathematical perspectives against each other in street gang style. Is a circle a polygon with infinite sides (as calculus would suggest when we approximate circles with polygons of increasing sides) OR is it the ultimate zero-sided shape (since it has no straight edges whatsoever)? The beauty is... both arguments are mathematically defensible! It's like Schrödinger's polygon - simultaneously having all the sides and no sides until a mathematician observes it and starts a turf war. Next up: are donuts and coffee cups topologically identical? (Spoiler: yes, and that's why mathematicians are always caffeinated!)

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