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It’s clearly just saying that the surfaces on which the ends of the cylinder lie are metric spaces with distances defined using Chebyshev or Taxicab metrics based on pentagonal tilings of the parabolic plane so the ratio of a circle’s circumference to diameter is 5.
Since it’s a cylinder we assume the vertical dimension is Euclidean and voila the math checks out geometrically.
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You know what's even cooler?
G E O L O G Y !!
https://xkcd.com/1610/
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