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"A circle no doubt has a certain appealing simplicity at first glance, but one look at an ellipse should have convinced even the most mystical of astronomers that the perfect simplicity of the circle is akin to the most vacant smile of complete idiocy."
— Aug 24, 2016 02:35PM
"A circle no doubt has a certain appealing simplicity at first glance, but one look at an ellipse should have convinced even the most mystical of astronomers that the perfect simplicity of the circle is akin to the most vacant smile of complete idiocy."
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Great nuggets like these -
"A circle no doubt has a certain appealing simplicity at first glance, but one look at an ellipse should have convinced even the most mystical of astronomers that the perfect simplicity of the circle is akin to the most vacant smile of complete idiocy."
— Aug 24, 2016 02:37PM
"A circle no doubt has a certain appealing simplicity at first glance, but one look at an ellipse should have convinced even the most mystical of astronomers that the perfect simplicity of the circle is akin to the most vacant smile of complete idiocy."
Nathan Jerpe
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The Greeks left no problem in geometry which the moderns have failed to dispose of. Faced by some of the trifles, like that of 'perfect numbers' which the Greeks left in arithmetic, we are still baffled.
— Aug 23, 2016 01:47PM
