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xkcd #3010: Geometriphylogenetics (xkcd.com)
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There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm more surprised that trapeziums aren't related to triangles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

All points on a triangle lie somewhere between their incircle and their circumcircle, so it checks out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow! I was so sure that circles and pentagons were closely related. Who would have known.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm pretty sure pentagons are a subspecies of bestagons...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The classic square peg in a round hole problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You can just drop them all in the square hole. Triangles, semicircles, arches, doesn’t matter. All of them go into the square hole.

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