Curve vs Straight Lines
Commenters express confusion and debate whether a geometric construction or visualization in the article is a true curve or merely composed of straight lines and angles, often referencing circles, Euclidean geometry, and puns on curves.
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Euclidean plane? Not line? Did I misunderstand the construction?
Still baffled that this is called a curve
That won't be useful for arbitrary curves (non straight lines)
Doesn't pi by definition make a nice curve?(Dumb geometry joke, sorry. I know what you mean.)
Can't be. It's all straight lines.
This is interesting - all I see is angles - where is it curved?
Not all curves are straight lines.
Right, it's a geometrical problem... my suggestion is a bit of a tangent.
This also holds for straight line segments :)
They must be geodesics, not straight lines