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The polygon claim is not at all obvious to me, how do you prove it?
by valicord 1y ago
The polygon claim is not at all obvious to me, how do you prove it?
- lacker 1y agoDraw 99 circles in a row, then draw a separate polygon around each one with only a teeny amount of excess area, then connect those polygons with teeny little connectors to make it a single polygon. When I say "teeny", you can make those arbitrarily small, so you can certainly fit them under 1 total area. Okay, it's maybe not "obvious" in a regular human sense, but in a graduate math class you could claim this was "obvious". It would be pretty clear if I were drawing a diagram on a whiteboard. I would definitely take less time proving this to a human, than formalizing it.