can any body back me up and give some other resones why the world is square?
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I'll back you up.  The world is, like, *so* 50 years ago.  All the cool cats and hip chicks these days are swinging with the Jovian planets.  Only squares with, like, tight highwater pants and cardigans care about this little podunk planet anymore.
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The earth isn't round. It's a squashed sphere, due to it's rotation.\n\nI wish grass fell from the sky. I have to go find a guy who knows a guy to get my grass.
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There is no sideways in space, either.\n\nDirections are relative to perspective. The direction that is down to me is the same direction as up is to people on the other side of this round world.\n\nMaybe the earth is inside-out?
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No one who has answered so far got it right.  The answer is TRUE, and the reason is because the moon rotates on its axis in exactly the same amount of time it takes it to make one revolution around the earth.  No one seems to get this.
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The reason the world is round is pretty a more than imaginary question and you could keep asking that question forever and ever without getting the right answer.God is the supreme being, the most powerful and he just created the world the way he liked.If it were you that had so much power,won't you do anything you want with anything you desire?\nLike I said there would be lots of answers to this question scientifically,geographically and mentally but the main point is that God is the all powerful.
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Xcuse me dude, plz be clear abt wt u wanna ask abt the PRINCILES OF GEOMETeRY
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It's just an assumption...\n\ncoz it looks like a sphere... like how the moon looks round...\n\nBut can u be sure!!!
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Read the link below, it explains it quite nicely.\nAnd bravo to you for being curious and wanting to know the REAL reasons for things!  Keep being inquisitive and asking questions!!
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All squares are rectangles,\nall parallelograms are quadrilaterls\nand all squares are parallelograms
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...but, in practice the boundary is NEVER an equal distance from the wicket on a round or oval boundary...so there's no technnical reason why a square boundary would not be also possible.
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I can't see your image, but if it is like any of these other pictures (see link), the problem is with the slopes of the triangles.  They may appear the same, but they aren't and that is where you lose a fraction of a square.  These small differences eventually add up to a full square if you rearrange things differently.\n\nThe key is in the slopes.\n\nI wish I could see the picture because I like area paradox puzzles like these.\n\n-----\n\nI'm back and can see your picture now... it is just like the first paradox in my link.\n\nThe answer, as I said is the slopes of the triangles.  One triangle has a rise of 2 for a run of 5 (slope = 0.40) and the other has a rise of 3 for a run of 8 (slope = 0.375).  So despite how it looks in the picture, that is not a straight line along the top.\n\nIn the top case, the slope causes a slight bend inward on that line.  In the bottom case, the slope causes a slight bend outward on that line.  If you take the difference between these two you get 1 sq. unit which accounts for the "missing" square.  The second link shows this visually.
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YOU NEED TO DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK, but I'll do you a small favor....\n\nIn 1750, the world was known to be round.  In 1450, the world was widely and officially considered flat.\n\nNow, think of what historical incident brought about this change of thought.  You got it?  Good - now think about the fortunes of various peoples and nations WORLDWIDE that accrued from the historical incident you figured out.\n\nYou now have the makings of a brainstorm that will lead you to a theme, an outline, and an essay.
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The earth is APPROXIMATELY round due to gravitational forces.
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A fact is that the world is round (it can be proved). An opinion is the world is flat (a statement that can be proved wrong).
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I know exactly what you mean by raising up this question, I have asked myself 10,000 times...but I have found out that without Geometry, this world would not be what it is by now... put it as simple as this, not even your keyboard of your computer would exist... everything in terms of architecture and design (every single fashion) is based on GEOMETRY... Is tough I now...but it is necessary!!!...
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its square with all sides and angles equal
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To a first-order approximation the Earth is round.  This\nis due to gravity.  Gravity pulls with equal strength in all\ndirections; therefore any variations from a spherical\nshape will lead to gravitational forces that\nbring the shape back into that of a sphere.\n \nThis is without considering the rotation of the earth,\nhowever.  The rotation of the earth adds centrifugal\neffects, which cause the earth to bulge slightly at\nits equator and flatten slightly at its poles.\n(This is like twirling a rock on the end of a string\nand then letting go--the rock flies away from the\ntwirler.)  Because of these centrifugal effects, the\ndistance from the center of the earth to the surface\nof the earth is about 0.33% shorter at the poles\ncompared to the equator.