(Q): Why does snow melt
Only where the angles meet?
(A): Ninety degrees

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Snow #March #Melt #Thaw #Angles #90Degrees #RightAngles #Puns #DadJokes #BadJokes

March 4, 2025

A golygon is any polygon with all right angles whose sides are consecutive integer lengths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golygon

#Golygon #Polygon #Integer #Geometry #IntegerLength #RightAngles #Math #Maths

You can also explore #non-Euclidean space and here is the same action in #HyperbolicSpace (here in a #PoincaréDisc). #StraightLines are replaced by #GeodesicLines which look like #CircularArcs which intersect the #disc at #RightAngles. Circles are transformed to circles but their hyperbolic centres are not at their Euclidean centres.

Repeating the construction for Euclidean space, you can see that the parallel lines diverge.

#Mathematics #Geometry #NonEucldeanGeometry #FreeSoftware