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squaring the circle

Posted By: Rich Munitz
Date: Saturday, 11 December 2010, at 1:21 a.m.

In Response To: squaring the circle (svilo)

You'll need to find another phrase for peeling the onion than "squaring the circle". Come to think of it, "peeling the onion" is available.

Squaring the circle is a well known problem in geometry which most certainly has nothing to do with onions or the method of stepwise refinement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle .

Essentially it comes down to the problem of constructing a line of length "SQRT(pi)" with only straightedge and compass, given a line of length 1. As a transcendental number, it can't be done.

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