Talk:Compass and straightedge

Article Deletion

Perhaps my deletion of this article was hasty, but it didn't seem well-written and I thought it contained deliberately inserted errors.

I'll give it another week or two, if Sam or anyone wants to fix it up.

Note: I'd like this article to be readily understood, even by readers who did not get good marks in plane geometry or who managed to skip it somehow. --Ed Poor ^Talk 14:04, 13 November 2010 (EST)

Greetings, Ed. Your comment about making it understandable to people who completely skipped plane geometry certainly raises the bar in terms of the amount of work I have to do. I accept the challenge, but it will take a while. By those standards, you're absolutely right in that it isn't well written. But at least it no longer contains deliberately inserted errors. BTW, the article goes off in more directions than I had remembered. But I accept the challenge. (Also, didn't you say somewhere that you skipped plane geometry? That raises the bar even further.) SamHB 15:56, 13 November 2010 (EST)

In the dim, ancient past (around the mid-seventies to mid-eighties) it was entirely possible to receive a Bachelor's and a Masters without taking even one upper-division class in math, so it isn't like that is a rare condition... --ṬK_/Admin^/Talk 16:01, 13 November 2010 (EST)

Couldn't you give one example showing some problem solved with compass and straightedge (a diagram, actually) before getting into the unsolved problems? --Ed Poor ^Talk 13:45, 13 April 2011 (EDT)