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"Among my other notes from the same period I find these daydream-ing questions that I thought profound at the time. "How many diagonals does a polygon of n sides have?" (I haven't the faintest idea, but it is a respectable, though, if memory serves, elementary combina-torial question; a discussion of it can surely be found in anyone of the proliferating books on the subject.)"
— May 20, 2023 09:27AM
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I'm taking it's a good sign when the preface excites you, or in this case, the Overture.
(Why is it also 200 pages and not 400?)
— May 19, 2023 03:57AM
(Why is it also 200 pages and not 400?)
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May 20, 2023 09:35AM
This is so sweet to read, he's very relatable. I catch onto anything like it, and I'm glad he gives me much to work with. This paragraph for example, a problem that I learned and told all my friends about around the same age when he wrote it down in his little notebook. I believe as long as you define the answer to not include overlapping diagonals, and to only draw diagonals from non adjacent nodes, the answer would be n-3. So a hexagon would have 3 diagonals and a decagon 7. Such a wonderful book.
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