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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More on tri vs. bi
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Date: 10 Jul 89 15:08:20 GMT
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In-reply-to: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)

In article <4704@ttidca.TTI.COM>, hollombe@ttidca (The Polymath) writes:
> In article <4859@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes:
> }
> }I've been following the discussion of trinary computers,
> }which brought to mind another question: has anyone ever
> }succeeded in trisecting an angle?  
> 
> The ancient Egyptians worked out a method called the "conchoid"
> (pronounced "KONKoyd").  However, it isn't considered clean or elegant
> enough to qualify.  Apart from that, no, it's never been done. (I recall
> hearing of a proof that it's impossible, but that may just be my aging
> neurons mis-firing. (-: ).

It's impossible by Euclidean methods.  So only a few of your neurons misfired.
:-)

					--Scott

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