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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are those pyramids called pyramids because they the shape that we call pyramid or do we call the shape pyramid because they look like those pyramids?

[–] ayyy 12 points 3 days ago

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean tetrahedron could work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It wouldn’t. A tetrahedron has four sides, hence the name, while an Egyptian-style pyramid has five (if you include the base, otherwise it isn’t even a polyhedron).