• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    For my fellow nerds who are wondering for realsies, you can 512 Polands in the Pacific ocean (although you’d probably have to chop up a few to get them to fit neatly)

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      although you’d probably have to chop up a few to get them

      excited German and Soviet noises

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      Cool. Now all of us fellow nerds are obsessing over the fact that it’s a perfect power of two.

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        Turns out, the polandgon (polagon?) has an ideal shape with a perfect binary ratio of area to circumference.