I would have asked this on a math community but I couldn’t find an active one.

In a spherical geometry, great circles are “straight lines”. As such, a triangle can have two or even three right angles to it.

But what if you go the long way around the back of the sphere? Is that still a triangle?

(Edit:) I guess it’s a triangle! Fair enough; I can’t think of what else you would call it. Thanks, everyone.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    If you were to walk this route along the surface of the earth, you would walk in perfectly straight lines apart from the three turns.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      No such thing. Even if you were walking on a surface with no change in elevation, the acceleration due to gravity would cause your path to be curved as it followed the curvature of the planet.