Is this a triangle?

https://lemmy.vg/post/642510

Is this a triangle? - Lemmy.VG

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?

This is an example of non-Euclidean geometry. In this non-Euclidean space, it is a triangle.
Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

I am pleased to see that there is a section on Lovecraft in that article. He really loved his non-Euclidian geometry
as well as being really aggressively racist
Don’t worry. Give it half a millenium and we all will have been racist against dogs.