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For decades I've been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Three rights make a left. It's entirely possible to have an unbalanced ratio of left to right rotations in a day

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Triangular grid guy: "Guess I'm going back the way I came."

Hexagonal grid guy: "What is left. What is right. This did nothing! Nothing!"

Guy on Penrose tiling: "Get me out of here!"

(In before: "You have the first two the wrong way around." Not if they're walking the edges.)