# Best Euclid's Postulate?

**URL:** <https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925>\
**Category:** The Polling Forum\
**Created:** [April 11, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925 "2005-04-11T17:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/cless_alvein/32/1_2.png) [@Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Cless_Alvein)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/1 "2005-04-11T17:46:58Z")

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I prefer the 5th one myself

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**Author:** ![Hiryuu](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/hiryuu/32/20_2.png) [@Hiryuu](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Hiryuu)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/2 "2005-04-13T00:41:17Z")

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Cless, I hate to say it, but I think you and I may be the only two people here who even know who Euclid is.

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**Author:** ![The\_984](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/the_984/32/5_2.png) [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/3 "2005-04-13T00:45:49Z")

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Euclidian geometry. 🙂

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**Author:** ![TaranWanderer](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce7236/32.png) [@TaranWanderer](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/TaranWanderer)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/4 "2005-04-13T00:49:20Z")

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Geometry is okay, but I like Calculus better.

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**Author:** ![Pierson](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Pierson](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Pierson)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/5 "2005-04-13T04:44:45Z")

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I prefer non-Euclidean geometry myself.

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**Author:** ![ClothHat](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@ClothHat](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/ClothHat)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/6 "2005-04-13T05:22:03Z")

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> [@Pierson](#):
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> I prefer non-Euclidean geometry myself.

Eh, regular Euclidean Geometry class by itself provided enough “indescribable horrors that reduced men to babbling wrecks” for my taste.

Also, Pythagoras would totally kick Euclids ass in a fight.

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**Author:** ![Hiryuu](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/hiryuu/32/20_2.png) [@Hiryuu](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Hiryuu)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/7 "2005-04-13T13:23:50Z")

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Archimedes would kill Pythagoras and Euclid in a fight. …A mathematical fight anyway.

He was killed during a siege of Syracuse, where he lived… and while the city was being ravaged, Archimedes was obliviously working diligently on a math problem in the dirt. He was to be spared, but he was too distracted to let the soldiers know his name, he just told them not to disturb his problem he was solving. He was, slayed, of course. He was also apparently on the verge of discovering calculus around 200 BC, but he died and it wasn’t discovered until Isaac Newton and Wilhelm Leibniz did it 1500 years later.

Also, speaking of Newton, he and Carl Friedrich Gauss were also much better mathematicians than Pythagoras and Euclid.

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**Author:** ![The\_984](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/the_984/32/5_2.png) [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/8 "2005-04-13T13:27:28Z")

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> [@Pierson](#):
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> I prefer non-Euclidean geometry myself.

Ah yes. With the whole triangles not having 180 degrees… I think I heard something that on the right curved surface, pi equals three.

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**Author:** ![Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/cless_alvein/32/1_2.png) [@Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Cless_Alvein)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/9 "2005-04-13T14:50:38Z")

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\<img src = “[http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/cless/sphericalplane.gif](http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/cless/sphericalplane.gif)”\>  
\<1 + \<2 + \<3 \> 180 😮

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**Author:** ![The\_984](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/the_984/32/5_2.png) [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/10 "2005-04-13T14:54:15Z")

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Now try it with a concave surface, Cless.

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**Author:** ![Nebagram](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nebagram/32/52_2.png) [@Nebagram](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nebagram)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/11 "2005-04-13T15:01:25Z")

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The Euclidean algorithm, god that pissed me off last year when we were doing number theory. Easy, but dull and laborious as shit.

…Although I fail to see what the poor guy’s prostate has to do with anything.

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**Author:** ![Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/cless_alvein/32/1_2.png) [@Cless\_Alvein](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Cless_Alvein)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/12 "2005-04-13T15:17:14Z")

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> [@The\_984](#):
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> Now try it with a concave surface, Cless.

no

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**Author:** ![ClothHat](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@ClothHat](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/ClothHat)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/13 "2005-04-13T15:19:35Z")

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> [@The\_984](#):
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> Ah yes. With the whole triangles not having 180 degrees… I think I heard something that on the right curved surface, pi equals three.

It’s a Lovecraft reference.

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**Author:** ![Nulani](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nulani/32/41_2.png) [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/14 "2005-04-13T16:32:18Z")

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I learned about Euclid’s Maxions in Philosophy. Does that count?

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**Author:** ![Hiryuu](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/hiryuu/32/20_2.png) [@Hiryuu](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Hiryuu)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/15 "2005-04-13T16:56:58Z")

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Maxions? I can’t tell if you’re trying to say maxims or axioms. =P

Either can be used as a synonym for postulate in this case, but “axiom” tends to be used more in a mathematical sense than maxim.

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**Author:** ![Nulani](https://discourse-cdn.rpgclassics.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgclassics.com/nulani/32/41_2.png) [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/best-euclids-postulate/12925/16 "2005-04-14T07:06:52Z")

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Axioms!  
Shut up!