• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    They’re not really mentioned in more advanced math. It’s all polygons.

    Ok, triangles are often treated as a special case. But for anything else it’s a n-sided polygon.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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      9 hours ago

      You mean regular polygons. A rhombus is an irregular polygon. Triangles are also all polygons. An equilateral triangle is a regular one.

    • Anna@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      Nah in my experience everything is a circle. You see π even in places you don’t expect