Fun fact: "pants decomposition" is a serious term used in serious topological discussion

@Felthry please elaborate

@typhlosion so there's a sort of 'fundamental' kind of topological object called a pair of pants

@typhlosion and evidently any two-dimensional topological manifold can be cut apart into a collection of pairs of pants

@typhlosion this is called the pants decomposition of the manifold

@typhlosion the pair of pants itself is a sphere with three distinct points removed from it

@Felthry i was wondering what the punchline here was. now it makes sense why it's called that

that sounds really cool

@typhlosion It just sounds really ridiculous to me because this is a serious topology thing, which is a very serious field of mathematics, and it contains a concept referred to as the pants decomposition