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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle: alternate joke solution to squaring the circle by opening up and flattening the cylinder's vertical side, folding it twice, then joining the 2 side edges of the 4 flat sections to make the end a square
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June 17, 2019
→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle: added the line "As a single object its total surface area remains the same identical area whether it is seen as a circle or a square."
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→External links: linked http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AngleTrisection.html
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→External links: link to http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/D/duplicating_the_cube.html
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corr typo error
mThank you SamHB ! - Greatly appreciate your usefully informative contribution. - this edit, Expansion of detail re meaning of "trisecting an angle" - revised layout, parallel form
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→External links: addn link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty#Beauty_in_method Mathematical beauty: Beauty in method - Wikipedia ''a discussion of mathematical elegance''
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle: linked joke - revised "See Paradox" to "See Paradox and Parody"
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle: tongue-in-cheek statement at end of joke "This simple solution with basic arithmetic and practical common sense elegantly does away with any need for the exact value of the transcendent number pi.."
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→The section of a cylinder as a squared circle: at beginnin of mathematical joke added the tease " Using only a straightedge ruler and a compass, a solution is obtained in six simple steps."
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addn info - full name Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann - two external links http://answers.com/Q/Who_called_pi_transcendental and https://www.academia.edu/10775717/Pi_is_Transcendental_Von_Lindemann_s_Proof_Made_Accessible_to_Today_s_Undergraduates
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linked Anaxagoras
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the rest of the joke: What is round is also square and what is square is also round. The round square and the square round have exactly the same volume.
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idiom category; other two problems from antiquity
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