Saturday, January 08, 2005

Introduction, or The Part to Miss

This is my first entry(yeah, I'm good at stating the obvious, get used to it) in a (hopefully) huge project that will likely span a life-time, unless I lose interest in it before my hypothesized death of cardiac arrest at the age of 60. To get us off on a "good" start, I'll specially lengthen the first few of my blogs, just to make it more painful for any desolate creature who has unwisely made the choice of following this blog. Brace yourselves, boys and girls, for you are about to witness the inner workings of a flawed and dangerously warped mind!

2 Comments:

Blogger samuel said...

so interesting.. eating popcorn now. when does the show start?

8:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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10:31 PM  

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Puzzle of the day from perplexus.info:
Trisecting an angle (Difficulty: 2 of 5)

Trisecting an angle, using only compass and straight edge, was one of the great classical problems of antiquity.

Modern mathematics has proved it impossible, but here is a simple and ingenious mathematical cardboard device that trisects accurately:


If you place it properly, so the edge AB passes through the vertex of the given angle, one side of the angle passes through point C, and the other side tangents the arc MN (arc of the circumference centered at E and radius ED), the lines traced from the vertex through the points D and E trisect exactly the angle.

Prove it.

The device is perfectly drawn to scale, so you can get any information you need about lengths, parallelism, intersections etc...



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