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qazpot
1045 days ago
The beetle fell into a hole and came out the otherside.
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LanceH
1045 days ago
Same side. The frog can be modelled as a torus for purposes of this beetle's navigation.
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euroderf
1044 days ago
Well then, we're all just talking donuts that absolutely ruin perfectly good food.
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makeset
1043 days ago
Surely this is the humor behind the "spherical cow" [1] metaphor for scientific oversimplification. Obviously a real cow isn't a sphere. It's a torus.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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