Post #2167054

2025-11-21 22:23 UTC

I feel sure these are intended for people with this many children but they seem like a really cute polycule gift plus the polycule version could have the rings linked according to who is dating who imagine the jeweller like &quot;sorry, you either have to break up with david or start seeing jen, otherwise your necklace is mathematically impossible&quot;

Replies (7)

@tonwood@mathstodon.xyz 2025-11-23 08:25

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz Now I want to see the simplest impossible system. The Borromean link cannot have plane circles; but that would be a strange thing to call a polycule.

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@koalou@lgbtqia.space 2025-12-08 07:05

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz Or for when you date several alters from the same system 🤔🤭 (which don't all date the same alters from other systems in the polycule, which makes the polycule idea even more complicated 😛)

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@arichtman@eigenmagic.net 2025-12-08 09:56

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz the *second*-hardest polycule problem, after scheduling of course

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@sodiboo@gaysex.cloud 2025-12-08 10:02

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz can't arbitrary links be made relatively trivially? e.g. by threading one string into a tangled mess, crossing under the partner, and then exiting all the way back out without crossing under anyone else. repeat indefinitely. I would intuit that there is no polycule that is "mathematically impossible" to represent here, and it's purely a skill issue on the jeweler's end. maybe, with some given size, material, and budget constraints, then certain configurations might be physically infeasible. but certainly not mathematically impossible.

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@tofu@is-a.cat 2025-12-08 11:58

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz are these somehow fused together, or just a bunch of rings hanging on a chain and rotating, making names potentially hidden by other rings?

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@sunshine@kinkycats.org 2025-12-08 12:14

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz great idea 😂

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@piersb@wandering.shop 2025-12-08 12:24

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz I totally read it as polycule gift.

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