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by lucianbr 768 days ago
In what sense is the Duke Nukem thing "an example of this"? The duke thing is an internally consistent programmed behaviour, this is... just random errors caused by a random change in the source code. Duke is maybe non-euclidean geometry, or something. This doom pi thing is... nothing to do with geometry. More an example of "garbage in, garbage out" maybe.
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It's an example of "non-euclidean" space, and yes, it is a bit different than the article.
The DN example would be an instance of non-Euclidean topology whereas the other one is presumably non-Euclidean geometry.