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circle, and b) has a length of 1 between the other intersection with the circle and the intersection with an extended diameter. You can easily do this by sliding around a marked ruler whose marking has length 1, but it's impossible otherwise (since it trisects the angle, for one). Another way to look at it is: no particular distance is unconstructable, because the plane doesn't have a preferred coordinate system. Only once you draw your first circle do you establish a metric. So if you have any marked ruler you can trivially make the marking a constructible length by making it the unit distance in your coordinates.
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straightedge can start with the creation of an arbitrary distance using the compass). Likewise, no new constructions are possible using a ruler with any number of marks on it as long as the ratio of any two distances between marks is constructible using compass and straightedge (i.e. any ratio must be a solution to a quadratic equation). A ruler would only permit new constructions if a ratio of distances between marks is not constructible (for example, a ruler with three marks at 0, 1 and
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straightedge and compass. So you are still restricted as to how you can use elements of this "grid" and you will not be able to double the cube, etc. Now if you were to actually violate the rules for a Euclidean construction somehow, you can double the cube. For example, see the particular example Arthur gave. In that example, one creates a point of intersection between two lines by measuring along a marked straightedge, which is disallowed under the normal rules. --
1677:"compass and straightedge" over "compass and straightedge construction" -- The preference is shorter, therefore presumably better barring some other argument. The former is quite unambiguous, in the sense that the pairing of these two tools is universally understood to apply equally to the set of tools, to the operations that may be performed with them, and to the theory which governs all. Thus there is no need to disambiguate by adding the needless word "construction". 2721:
large number are needed) will be changed to being direct. By the way, I hope my slightly more formal section on the interpretation of geometric constructions as operations in the complex field is helpful. Further work needed includes removing some of the repetitions in other sections, and a description with a diagram (or alternatively a link) for the geometric construction for each arithmetic operation.
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working mathematician I feel the need to point out that there are professional standards for published mathematical works and the paper being talked about fails to meet those standards in many ways. The fact that the author of the paper is also a founding editor of the journal in which this paper appears may explain how it got published in the first place. Comments?
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allow one to generate various interesting subsets of the ones that can be constructed using compass and ruler and there's other constructions that lead to wider fields like the one with unit distances you found. I can't find an appropriate article on a quick search but there probably is one or one could be set up easily. It could include for instance the ones where
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and a point; and then draw a line which passes through the given point and intersects both lines, and such that the distance between the points of intersection equals the given segment." Between which points of intersection -- all three? How does a distance "equal" a segment? Can we stop jamming "for example" appositives everywhere they are grammatically legal? (
1660:. Note that the "common usage" argument fails to endorse "ruler", because a ruler is marked in common usage. Adherence to strict interpretation fails as well: if "ruler" is strictly interpreted to be unmarked then this jerks the rug from under any claim to "common usage" for "ruler and compass". "Straightedge" is unambiguous, strict, and still commonly understood. 3144:"An example of a simple achievable construction is to divide a line into two sections of ratio 1 : N (integer). First construct perpendicular lines at each end of the target line, next construct, with the compass, one target line length 'down' on the 'left' and N target line lengths 'up' on the 'right'. Join the two resultant points for a 1:N intersection." 4037:.(In particular this is not original research) 2. I asked you to discuss before making changes, I think you should do it next time. (Note that it is not me who started this "war".) 3. For the rest I gave the answers already --- I will wait couple of days and undo you changes. I am 100% sure think this type of construction worth to be mentioned here. -- 4072:
directly linking unit graphs and trisection. And really I can't see why you are going on about that here, the linkages do the job straightforwardly and pretty much equivalent in idea and more to the point there are citations showing the link. No we don't leave things in if it is obvious they don't belong and there is consensus about that.
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be zero, using the compass set to the unit radius mark off one unit from zero. Move the point of the compass to the first unit, mark of the second unit, .... The same procedure can be repeated for any straight edge in the diagram, effectivly giving the same construction possible as with a marked streight edge and compass. --
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cannot represent all of the real numbers - so one can produce an infinitely good approximation, given infinite time, but can never produce an exact answer in the strictly mathematical sense (because they lack the expressive power in the same way as the rational numbers cannot express the exact solution).
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This is the first time I have contributed anything to Knowledge (XXG) besides donations, so I'm not sure what exactly I'm doing here. And I am not a mathematician for sure, but I wanted to at least point out something in this article that may no longer reflect current knowledge. The latest Scientific
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Euclid seems to have had a broader view of what a "construction" is than this. For example, proposition 3.1 constructs the center of a circle from the circle. That can't be done with the basic constructions because there are no intersections to make a point from and no points to make a line or circle
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I just did a check using "straightedge-and-compass construction" on Google Books and that did bring up the hyphens somewhat. There were six without hyphens and four with on the first page, the first five did not have a hyphen. It was 9 hyphens and 20 without and one I couldn't tell on the first three
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I would say that the section should be struck. In support of this I note that according to Math Reviews, the paper that this section references has never been cited by any other mathematical article. As a Knowledge (XXG) editor I should not be commenting on the quality of referenced sources, but as a
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The most famous ruler-and-compass problems have been proven impossible in several cases by Pierre Wantzel, using the mathematical theory of fields. In spite of these impossibility proofs, some mathematical novices persist in trying to solve these problems. Many of them fail to understand that many of
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It might be worth mentioning that it _is possible to solve these problems to arbitrary accuracy (just not exactly). Simlply draw a cartesian grid of whatever scale is required (if you make it fine/big enough you can get any desired level of accuracy). Only mathematicians make a distiction between "as
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See my response right above; the Monthly definitely is not endorsing a particular terminology. What if someone else decides to put another Monthly ref indicating "ruler and compass" is preferred? Where will this end? Anyway, I'm going to create a "books" subsection then. I think there are several
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I'd like to ask Oleg: What do you mean by "existing (terminology)"? Do you mean the inconsistent text (at least 16 alternate forms) that existed before I standardized on one form? Do you mean the consistent text that existed before Paul's counter-move? Or do you mean the inconsistent text that exists
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To answer these questions someone should really survey the literature for the opinions of "experts" (by the way, there are roughly zero references in the article). In lieu of doing that tedious work, I vote for what I see as correctness: name the article "compass and straightedge", mention all of the
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I don't care a fig for what is the most common usage; only what is more correct. We're not in the business of perpetuating error. Fine to have redirects from all possible variations, including those with "ruler" in the title. Not okay to title the article page itself that way; that's just plain wrong
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I don't agree with the move of the page to ""Compass and straightedge". As i wrote above I think that "ruler and compass constructions" is the most common name for the subject of this article. In any case if we were to replace "ruler" by "straightedge", the article should be rewritten to reflect that
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Thank you for pointing this out. I was assuming neusis was not a permitted construction (it is far less direct than normal compass and straightedge constructions), but including it leads to an important superset of the compass and straightedge constructions. In light of this, I change my vote back to
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I think the article itself says it best, "The ruler to be used has no markings on it and only one edge, and is known as a straightedge." In my humble experience, I have always heard such constuctions referred to as "compass and straight-edge constructions." IMHO, I think straightedge is clearer and
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I did like the link to Euclidea an online compass and straightedge construction game that was added 18 march 2016, but was removed soon after with as reason (revert - rm promotional link; this is not a web directory) I did like the link and would like it reinstated, because it is related , I like
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Could we make a section with much used constructions, so that readers have some directory linking to much used (but not bascic) constructions, I know the list should not be to long or maybe a seperate page for a longer list. but on this page a list refering to "midpoint of segment", "angle bisector"
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a compound noun, denoting a class of constructions, but one can also refer to the tools used in such a construction, in which case the hyphens should not appear. In using the compound noun, one can say that construction X is a straightedge-and-compass construction, but this article is concerned with
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IMO, this article spends most of its time reviewing (a) what can't be done and (b) complicated proofs of this and complicated proofs of some thinghs that can be done. It appears to lack almost completey a review of what can be done and of how to do (some) of these constructions. I was tempted to add
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This is false - for example, given (0,0), (0,1), (0,-1), (1,0), (-1,0), and (1/√2,1/√2), the points that can be constructed with only a straightedge have coordinates in Q. Even supposing specific special points (x1,y1), ..., (x6,y6) (rather than arbitrary points), all points constructible with only
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A 2/3 majority is quite a strong endorsement for the suggested, less ambiguous title. On a related point, I have noticed that at present we have some double redirects to the article. Hopefully, if the name is changed (or if, as now seems unlikely, decided to be not changed) all redirects (of which a
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As someone who learned about this (twice) in undergraduate and graduate studies within the past several years, I would note that it was introduced both times as "straightedge and compass" with both professors, at different institutions, commenting on the difference between a straightedge and a ruler
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It's not just a matter of being able to construct the length between the marked segments; it's the fact that you can construct it in an unconstructable position. Have a look at Archimedes' trisection of the angle. The key step is to produce a line segment which a) passes through a given point on a
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for reasons mentioned above. Additionally, one should not use Google hits, but rather limit the references to authoritative sources (cf list of books below). My perusal of that list so far shows that neither term is overwhelmingly preferred by the authors of advanced mathematics books. In fact, I
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If you really feel the need to stick that citation into some article you should find an appropriate article or set one up. An article on the various types of points that can be constructed using different axioms would be a notable topic I think - for instance subsets of Hilbert's axioms of Geometry
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I was also jarred by this move and did a little investigation myself. I have certainly seen the hypenated version but only rarely and a quick pass through my bookshelf did not turn up any instances of it. I also looked for the ruler and compass version with or without hyphens. The variations may be
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Regardless of the algorithm we use, we can only perform a finite number of steps. Therefore, no matter what algorithm we use to determine them, there will always be points that we cannot mark by crossing of two lines (same holds if we mark the point as intersection of a line and a circle, or of two
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Existing terminology is "ruler and compass" as far as I am concerned. I am not taking it as a confrontation, but please don't stress so much that "all linking articles use one term and the article itself uses another". That is easy to fix one way or another. Let us be patient for a few days and see
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The issue of the marked straightedge is of a class distinct from that of the non-collapsing compass. Euclid I.2 and .3 justify the non-collapsing compass and show that any construction possible with the non-collapsing compass can be performed with the collapsing. The definition of the compass never
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The distinction is essential, which is why I am involved. You can, indeed, create a scale of any constructible numbers along a line. If you were to look at that, it would appear to be a ruler, in common speech. In order to use it as a new tool, though, you would have to cut it out from the paper on
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Does it actually matter if a ruler is marked or not. It is a trivial matter to produce a marked straight edge from an un marked straight edge and a compass. Step 1: draw a small circle, call the radius of the circle your unit. Next draw a straight line with the ruler, pick some point on the line to
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there is a slight distortion. the only true way to draw a real hexagon is to 1. bisect the circle at any point 1/2 way between the center and an edge to form point 2. using point as a center, draw a line perpendicular to the angle formed between and 3. mark the two points where intersects the
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I was aware you could get the further shapes if you extend those origami axioms but it isn't so easy to do them and there is no straightforward connection to trisecting. The basic axioms do that fine and there are citations for it. The thing you have to do to get any further here is get a citation
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I suspect that this false generalisation is due to a misinterpretation of another result - given those 6 points, one can construct arbitrarily many points of the circle given by those 5 equidistant points, as well as its center. If one actually had the circle and its center, that would be enough,
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Whether moved or not, the second sentence in the section on marked rulers is completely obtuse. Someone who understands it in detail should just yank this particular sentence and rewrite it wherever it belongs. "This would permit them, for example, to take a line segment, two lines (or circles),
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You seem to be saying "I worked my ass fixing all of those articles and links, therefore, how dare you all people argue with me?" Maybe that's not what you mean, but if that is what you mean, that's a lame way of making a point. And we are not arguing about inconsistency here, we are arguing about
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Understand that I'm only talking about titles of articles here. Elsewhere, there is more latitude. For example one may choose to describe things rather than name them. So for example if I wanted to describe these constructions I might write "constructions using only a straightedge and compass" for
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Apparently the larger issue is how to refer to these constructions in other articles; I submit that anyone reading the phrase "compass and straightedge construction" will automatically translate it into "ruler and compass construction" or whatever their favorite variant is, so accomodating popular
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One can indeed create a Cartesian grid (as described in the article) with equally spaced out points along the axes. However, although it may look like you've effectively constructed a replacement for a marked straightedge, the point is that you are still only allowed certain operations with your
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F. Klein described another linkage machine in his "Famous problems of Elementary Geometry" (? - not sure I got that right, I'm not at home) that can do this as well, and we already have a page on it (sorry, don't remember the name). Perhaps we can extend this section to include these and the unit
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I would like to call into question the value of this section. First, the paper referred to is now 14 years old ... not particularly recent in my mind, so I find the section title a bit misleading. The section has been in the article since Sept. 2002, with no change in content (but there have been
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speaking, a "ruler" is a straightedge only, a tool for ruling (drawing straight lines). A tool for measuring is a "scale"; thus the commonplace object found in home and office is truly a ruler with a scale printed upon it -- a dual-purpose tool. It is, however, ambiguously called a ruler; and the
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The usual rule for hyphens is to include them between words that together form a single adjective for something else in the sentence, and to leave them out when the words form a noun phrase that's not functioning as an adjective. For example, "a high-school opera" ("high-school" functions as an
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I disagree - I think there should be some mention of this, to inform the casual reader, (without being overly technical) that compass and straight edge are at least as powerful as the rational numbers, and can be used to solve any problem to arbitrary precision. The important point is that they
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I was going to jump in and vote oppose when I first saw the vote started, but I thought I'd wait and see if any arguments swayed me, first. Having been in the 'neutral' camp for a day or two, I've now plumped for oppose. I've never heard of 'straightedge'; the "ruler and compass" words seemed
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I'd never heard of "straightedge and compass" or "compass and straightedge" before this discussion. (And I was designated crank-reader at Caltech for a short period of time, so I saw a lot of bad "ruler-and-compass" angle trisections. This doesn't necessarily indicate the correct term, but it
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I think these two sentences are contradictory. The first seems to imply a collapsing compass, as you must pre-define the radius and center point in order to draw the circle there. If a rigid compass were permissible then you need only a center point in order to draw a circle whose radius youve
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policy says we should not put things like that into articles. You should not be trying to push things like that in here unless somebody in the world at large has thought it worthwhile to publish a connection. I have explained this before, you seem to deny that is a real reason but it is pretty
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I do not object to a trisection linkage which has a good relevant citation. The classical impossible constructions are an important part of the article and there are citations talking about compass and ruler and the classical problems and directly connecting linkages with those. I do object to
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I have just removed an addition dealing with unit distance graphs. The quoted result says that for any algebraic number there is a graph (in the Euclidean plane) with a pair of vertices at this distance for any unit distance graph representation. If this was related to compass and straightedge
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I did the checking by putting "compass-and-straightedge" with the quotes into Google Books. I did not do any special checking that hyphens were inappropriate and therefore an entry should be ignored. If some demonstration can be made that there is some criteria I should use which is better and
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be constructed with compass and straightedge - are simply not true in general for ruler and straightedge. Therefore the current name could be seen as misleading. On the other hand, it's naming policy to use the most widely familiar name, even where that name contains factual inaccuracies. Such
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Unless I missed something, the article currently contains no history prior to Gauss, except a brief mention that a proposition of Euclid's implies that it doesn't matter whether a compass is collapsible, a brief statement that the requirements can be expressed in terms of Euclid's first three
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The History section doesn't explain the origins of the compass and straightedge restriction, nor does it distinguish between eras in which the restriction was considered absolute and eras where constructions using other tools were considered legitimate but less aesthetic, less fundamental or
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Hopefully...all redirects (of which a large number are needed) will be changed to being direct. By the way, I hope my slightly more formal section on the interpretation of geometric constructions as operations in the complex field is helpful. Further work needed includes removing some of the
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Firstly, this is an article about a topic in mathematics, not about practical drafting methods. That should really be clear from the article. Secondly, it is true but rather a minor point that approximate constructions for squaring the circle, etc, exist: approximate constructions exist for
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I think I must not have expressed myself clearly enough. An infinite ruler with two marks on it only provides a single unit of length which can be used anywhere in a construction. As we are only interested in ratios, this cannot allow any new constructions (any construction with compass and
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I think including the hyphens follows the ordinary rules for punctuation, and forms the common name. Or am I misunderstanding you? I don't have an opinion (yet) on whether "compass" or "straightedge" customarily comes first. I'll do a little googling and see if my results agree with yours.
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Here's what I think is going on regarding the hyphens: While the hyphenated version clearly follows standard English punctuation for compound attributive nouns, sometimes copyeditors omit the hyphens when they seem unwieldy and there's no real ambiguity. This happens especially often in
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and did the work required. Now I find I'm asked to spend an equal amount of time debating the issue. My work is beginning to seem a poor investement; perhaps I should have permitted the mess to fester as it was. But if you will not do the work yourself, I ask that you allow me to do so.
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One of the biggest issues I have with a marked ruler - beyond the fact that it is capable of extending constructibilty - is the simple fact that it introduces measure, a metric, into the plane. This turns geometry from something more abstract and geometric, to something more algebraic.
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which it was drawn and translate it. If translation by a non-constructible distance is permitted -- and we generally understand that two objects may be offset, relative to one another, by any real-number distance -- then this opens the door to all three classic forbidden constructions.
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Until I started work, nobody had made any effort to untangle the rat's nest of links, descriptions, redirects, categories, and general blundering surrounding this subject. Now, with the exception of the rewrite of the main article (and perhaps one other task, that of an article for
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be expanded on demand. This is important; the actual process of duplicating a given line segment is hellishly complex compared to the ease of simply drawing a new circle with the old radius held in the compass. But the latter operation is only justified by the proof of the former.
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In my long-lost undergraduate days, I came across a sourcebook with an interesting letter from Newton in which he defined what we now know as the derivative with *exactly* the "modern" notion of a limit (given verbally, but precisely). It's bizarre that this took centuries to be
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Well I think that established 'Straightedge and compass construction' as a preferable title for Knowledge (XXG), but should we even include the 'construction' bit? It seems a bit unnecessary to me and people more often just say something like 'using straightedge and compass'.
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mentioned above talk explicitly about trisecting and they do everything necessary and relevant as far as this article is concerned compared to that general paper. And it is normal to not put things back in but discuss it first when you are in a minority about the insertion.
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The regular polygon with the largest number of sides that was ever actually drawn with a ruler and compass had 1,024 sides. It was drawn by graduate student Mr. Sam Bronstein at the University of Kentucky in 1963, a feat that took him 33 days and a sheet of paper 9 meters
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Could you provide some reasons, why you object to include the linkage-construction? So far I did not see any. Please make it clear, maybe number them and either I will agree or I could explain what is wrong with them. (At the moment our discussion goes nowhere).
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Googling books is what I did so please go ahead and check for yourself. I understand common name as meaning the name that is more common as written down in the major reliable sources rather than the name that follows grammar or is otherwise official in some way.
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I agree with you that it's wise to annotate each ref with the term chosen by the ref's author. I don't agree that web refs are automatically uncitable. I do agree that a random smattering of web refs is substandard. I chose refs such as an article published in
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I can live with either title and there are good arguments on both sides. Whatever you do, it's crucially important that the reader be made aware of the fact that, even though rulers sometimes have marks, the technical term "ruler and compass construction"
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clarity, while if I wanted to refer to them by name I might write "traditionally called ruler and compass constructions", perhaps noting what is meant by "ruler". Or if I was writing for mathematicians I would just write "ruler and compass constructions".
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Just noticed I used "straightedge and compass construction" instead of "compass and straightedge construction". In fact straightedge and compass construction came up 1560 times on Google books but compass and straightedge construction only came up 900
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John, I would prefer if we only added book references, preferably well-known textbooks and the like. I don't believe getting a cross section of Google hits will be nearly as helpful or representative of what may be considered "authoritative" usage.
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be constructed, even though there are infinitely many of them. The real impossibility proof is that the number of constructible points is countably infinite but there are uncountably infinitely many reals. If anyone wants to write it up, go for it.
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construction. For practical purposes the ruler is the more generally useful tool, certainly the more popular; thus it's not hard to see why the term is also more popular. But this is one of those times that the Google test gives a false indication.
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says says in its nutshell "Articles may not contain any new analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to reach or imply a conclusion not clearly stated by the sources themselves." For the origami trisection there is a citation in the
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Whatever the outcome be, IMO it would be bad idea to chase each and every reference in wikipedia articles and replace by one and the same. This would be imposing a POV bias unto the readers, since in real world both terms are used interchangeably.
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While there are certainly problems with Euclid's "proof" in III.1, I don't see where your objection is coming from. The circle has to be given (determined) in some manner, and Euclid does this by talking about the circle through the three points,
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that I can see and that is part of a Knowledge (XXG) policy. Is there a good reason to prefer grammar to common name in this instance? Also straightedge and compass construction is more common in books than compass and straighterdge construction.
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Article could use some cleanup, many external links have gone bad. I'd do it myself but I'm not a member so I don't know how to mark them and I don't want to start removing unsourced material if it can just be redirected to a different source.
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Suppose an algorithm that gives you a point as a result. The point will always be given by intersection of two lines (or line and circle or two circles. See previous elemental operations), but there are infinite points in a classical euclidean
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came up with 2,660. The books in the first couple pages of the latter seem more authoritative than the former: Springer-Verlag, etc. In the first 19 books in the straightedge-and-compass group, about a third had hyphens and two-thirds didn't.
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the text in the section sez "Note that our ruler may be used only to draw straight lines through constructed points. We are not allowed to use it for measurement. Sometimes it is referred to as a "straight-edge" to make this point clear."
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It is exactly this kind of subtle distinction between permitted and forbidden operations that invites so many cranks to waste their lives on fallacy. And this is why I feel so strongly about the issue of term used to describe this subject.
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article explicitly talking about trisecting angles in origami and giving the construction and there's other citations which could be given giving the connection to the axioms if you'd like citations here. The linkage constructions I and
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constructions, it would be saying that all algebraic numbers are constructible - which is clearly false. If I am somehow mistaken, the section would have to indicate how it is related to the topic of this article before being replaced.
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I think "Straightedge-and-compass constructions" would be better. "Ruler" is technically incorrect, as one can construct cube roots (not normally considered a ruler-and-compass construction) using a straightedge with two marks and a
2259:(edit conflict) Are we now to take this as endorsement by AMM? Or are you going to go through all AMM articles and see if one usage is preferred? A simple JSTOR search shows the Monthly lets authors use whatever term they like. -- 2100:
Thank you, Oleg; you are exactly correct, although I might have put it more delicately. I paid for my preference in the only coin of value here. The more that you denigrate my effort, the less respect I have for your point of view.
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At some time in the past I Heard the commentators for professional wrestling refer to the ring in which activity takes place as the "squared circle". This is an excellent example of pseudo-science in the service of pseudo-sport.
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To me the issues are one and the same. I think that, as a project, we should agree on one correct term for every concept and replicate it throughout all articles, much as we settle on one correct style for, say, taxoboxes. There
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At what time in the history of this project has "ruler and compass" been the standard term for this concept? It has been mentioned in many other articles, with a wide range of terms. The last time you (Oleg) edited the text of
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inaccuracies should be clarified in the article text, ideally in the intro, not corrected in the title. If the "compass and straightedge" name were equally widespread, or even half as widespread, I might agree to prefer it.
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I'd hate you to think I was criticizing your vote; I'm not. But you do suggest that a ruler marked in constructible ratios could not be employed to perform impossible constructions; it's my understanding that it can indeed.
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adjective for "opera") but "an opera performed in high school" ("high school" is a noun, the object of "in"). Similarly, "compass-and-straightedge constructions" but "constructions made with compass and straightedge". —
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these problems are trivially solvable provided that other geometric transformations are allowed: for example, doubling the cube is possible using geometric constructions, but not possible using ruler and compass alone..
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he had invented (differential equations), which would have been more natural. He chose this more awkward method so as to demonstrate that the theory would have been accessible to the ancient pythagorans, unaware that
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I believe using a marked ruler allows essentially the same constructions (unless the markings are in unconstructible ratios), but the suggested term more clearly describes the intended meaning. A google search shows
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where it seems 'Straightedge and compass construction' is more common. Also the version without hyphens seems more common but seems to occur about a third of the time. Any objections to a move now? Prefer hyphens?
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from. However, Euclid does it by drawing a chord through the circle at random, relying on the fact that the construction works no matter which chord one draws. Perhaps the definition of construction has changed?
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I agree with the recommendation, although I don't see it as a PoV issue. If we leave this alone, eventually the inward links should divide in proportion to all editor's feelings. This is the wiki process at work.
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The discussion on moving the article seems to have stalled a while ago with no decision. As a purely practical matter, it's usually much easier to make a link to the article when the article name is singular.--
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I've checked Google books and only found two instances of the name with hyphens in instead of spaces. Therefore this new hyphens name is not a common name and the article should be move back to its old title.
1384: 2847:; even the Galois theory article makes this assertion. However, the proofs just rely on basic field theory with no need of Galois groups, etc. The current phrasing would even seem to take credit away from 3373:
Is there any analogous model where instead of limiting the compass and straightedge constructions to a single 2D plane, that we instead use them on a number of intersecting 2D planes in 3 dimensional space?
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Yes all algebraic numbers are constructable using unit-distance-graph constuructins. And yes unit-distance-graph constuructins is a type of geometric constructions (not worse that origami-constructions).
3219:" in that sentence appears in blue, perhaps with an underline? That means that you can click on it, and read in detail about the problem of doubling the cube. In that article there is a section titled 4377:, there are no hyphens and putting compass first is somehow jarring. I believe that this is a case where the rules of grammar are being ignored in favor of common practice, and we should follow suit. -- 3711:
An alternate method for constructing polygons is by taking any two sides of a right-angle triangle as radii of a circle & its sectors,some of the results will be apeiroga,but most give good results.
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It is definitely the fault of mathematicians here. Some VERY famous names aided and abetted this myth, without checking into it themselves. You'd think being math people, they would question things.
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What did they say about squaring the circle, doubling the cube, and trisecting the general angle? Did they think that these could be solved? Which trisectible angles did they know how to trisect?
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The following three construction problems, whose origins date from Greek antiquity, were considered impossible in the sense that they could not be solved using only the compass and straightedge.
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I'd like to make it clear that no consensus existed in the project before I did my work over these last few days. The subject was referred to by no less than 16 alternate, inconsistent titles.
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It took me over 7 hours to correct every link in every related article, fix every category tag, and rewrite several snippets of text. I'm really sorry I haven't gotten around to the rewrite of
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your support or opposition was marginal or indecisive, can you imagine any circumstance under which you might consider reversing your position or becoming fully neutral? What might that be?
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I know that I am jumping in late here, but I support the more accurate title, and I think that historical precedence is an absurd reason to continue the propagation of ambiguous terminology.
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No, the people doing the history are mathematicians specialising in history of math, not the other way around. (True for most sciences...you have to have some understanding of the material.)
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by Emily Riehl which seems to indicate that it is now possible to construct "with an imaginary straightedge and compass, of a cube with a volume twice that of a different, given cube".
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and the highly-respected and popular Math Forum at Drexel. Certainly some nutball crank in a high school in Outer Okeefenokee who happens to have a page on cube doubling is uncitable.
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easy to fix -- not one way, not at all. I spent at least 7 hours fixing links, text, and redirects. Now that I've paid for my concerns in sweat, yes, it's easy for you to run a bot --
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is better; this is about the process of construction in general, more than a list of constructions. On the whole, I prefer the shorter name: it is also a direct link in phrases like
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Replacing circles with spheres so you look at points where lines or spheres intersect is the obvious extension. However you still don't get anything beyond doing square roots.
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Common usage should decide; Knowledge (XXG) is no place for "correctness" - but only if it is -er- decisive. I am not convinced that "ruler and compass" dominates the field.
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familiar as soon as I saw them, and I didn't make an assumption that the ruler was used for length measurement; the resources identified below are by no means unambiguous.
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A further generalisation of this theorem (due to K. Venkatachala Iyengar) gives constructions using only a ruler given a point and five distinct points equidistant from it.
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The verb "rule" is sometimes synonymous with "measure" or "judge". Therefore, I suggest that all wording in this article be changed to "straightedge" instead of "ruler".
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John, you seem to be conflating the issue of what we title the article with how we describe or refer to these constructions in other articles. As I tried to explain in
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What lengths, angles, and figures could they construct? (E.g., could they do the regular pentagon? Did they think that all regular polygons ought to be constructible?)
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The other possibility is that the circle is determined by a center and a radius - but in that case one already has the center and so here is no need to construct it.
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article. Now that the page is "hot", there have been plenty of edits so I'll hold off on a comprehensive rewrite; it may not be necessary with many hands on the page.
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Circles can only be drawn starting from two given points: the centre and a point on the circle. The compass may or may not collapse when it's not drawing a circle.
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The difference with origami is there is an explicit construction for trisecting an angle at the article pointed at as an important part of the whole business, see
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Yes that doesn't belong here, it is too general and unrelated, but a construction using linkages with no sliders would and that is practically the same thing. See
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1. you should read carefully what I wrote (I did not say that get all algebraic numbers with the Huzita–Hatori axioms for origami). See for example Theorem 1 in
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I think "construction" is definitely necessary in the title. It's part of the standard terminology of geometry, which distinguishes constructions from proofs. —
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Ok, sorry, I missed this comment earlier. I think we should at least annotate the refs though so it's easy to see at a glance what the ref's position is. --
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Although the term "ruler" is sometimes used instead of "straightedge," the Greek prescription prohibited markings that could be used to make measurements.
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I brought order from chaos. Don't stress the inconsistency? If you don't think it's important what we call it, why oppose the effort to gain consistency?
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repetitions in other sections, and a description with a diagram (or alternatively a link) for the geometric construction for each arithmetic operation.
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a straightedge would have coordinates in Q, which cannot capture the closure of Q under square roots (which is what ruler and compass can construct).
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I think there's room for a lot of reorganization here. Some pages should be merged; some new ones should be split off. I just ran into a problem with
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I can provide good graphics for any construction if someone will kindly indicate what's required. Let's get together in a corner and thrash it out.
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I think on this evidence the article should be titled "Straightedge and compass construction" rather than "Compass-and-straightedge construction".
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by 100,000 to 90,000 so a few redirect pages are going to be necessary. Fortunately, the term "Compasses" seems to be hardly used in this context.
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change, and the title should be "Compass and straightedge constructions". I am going to move the article back until we can arrive at a consensus.
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I'm not a mathematician, but I don't see why the hexagon construction doesn't work. Is it because pi is irrational? Can someone clarify this?
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Had an interesting note about how in ancient Greece, they did not have access to marked rulers, so for them a ruler was just a straight edge.
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It's important that we sign our own comments, but I don't think it's appropriate for us to take credit for public references in this section.
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Regarding the end of this last sentence: If an example is offered, it should be given, not withheld. Doubling the cube is "possible" using
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Being a quibbler by nature, I cannot resist pointing out that the "unambiguous umarkedness" of the straightedge may not be straightforward:
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard enough without us spending time on aruging which terminology is the right one. Just use the existing one.
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What evidence is there that it's the most common? I myself never hear it, and never use it, and have been indoctrinated against its use.
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Please disregard my entry as it isn't relevant to the matter at hand. My bad - I'll stick with conventional contributions in the future.
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I'd favor the move to "Straightedge and compass construction" (no hyphens). In analogy with the technically incorrect, but still common,
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minor changes in how the reference is given). The single sentence is pure hype and does not add anything to the article. On the basis of
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for a "ruler (straightedge with two marks)" and compass construction which cannot be simulated by a "ruler and compass" construction. —
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Google hits are misleading here. If you click search results to the very end, you will notice that both give nearly the same number of
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in subtitle; notable in that this is a broad cross-section of related pages, presumably collected by author without a narrow outlook
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Shouldn't this be moved to the "Constructible Number" article, since they have little to do with compass and straightedge directly?
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and all the other articles on specific impossibility proofs. These overlap a lot, yet none of them should try to cover every topic.
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Don't stress the inconsistency? This is the root of the whole problem. Inconsistency makes us look like fools and amateurs. It was
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putting in things which don't mention a direct connection, that paper doesn't mention compass or ruler or anything like that. The
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under impossible constructions is poorly worded. It needs to be brought up to the level normally present on Knowledge (XXG). --
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I found a source and got a good start on a history section, but it needs to be beefed up with more material and more sources.
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Doesn't seem to be add anything to the topic, it is just a nice game. Unfortunately I agree it comes under not a directory.
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was singularized. I think that the title should either be hyphenated with constructions, or no hyphens with construction.
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graph result. My earlier suggestion was made without looking at that page and I didn't realize that it was so limited.
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think of a ruler as being a "marked" one (technically called a "measure"). However a ruler can also be unmarked. See
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I do not see consensus here, but I have added the normal move vote format above, this page should also be listed on
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could be approximated as accurately as one wished with a rational number. This is true, but also true of all other
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Did the ancient Greeks come up with the requirements of a straightedge and compass construction? In what context?
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the most appropriate name. In short, yes, you did a lot of work, but you are also making too much fuss about it.
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Since "straigtedge and compass" is more precise but should not confuse anyone used to "ruler and compass", etc.
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You do not get all algebraic numbers with the Huzita–Hatori axioms for origami. The original research policy
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I tabulated, retaining your division into three classes. We may argue about it, but at least we will do so
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I must agree that the "compass and straightedge" has its points. For one thing, it permits the marked, or
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Not endorsement by AMM; but an AMM article is a credible source, just like somebody's algebra textbook.
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used a compass and straightedge construction to illustrate his theory of gravitation, rather than the
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changes throughout Euclid; but later constructions are simplified. It is understood that any of them
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Is it mentioned anywhere how to construct 60 degree angles? It is one of the simpler constructions.
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Even if you don't buy this, the construction itself comes straight from Proposition 15 in Euclid's
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Note that any argument supporting "construction" might apply to "method". No extra word is needed.
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Now for the boring, point-by-point argument -- feel free to skip this if you already know better:
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This is the more colloquilal name, and you don't need marks on the stick, i.e. 'a ruler' per se.
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Shouldn't this define what is meant by an angle of finite order or link to a definition? --
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And I quote from the first subsection "compass and straightedge tools", first bullet point:
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a permitted construction, but I understand what you mean. Anyway, glad I could help.
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Unsourced; and largely false. Archimedes' more "advanced analytical method" was the
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section with this title; repeated use of straightedge and no mention of "ruler".
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Do you think that the article is ready to become a featured article?
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How many does it return for compass and straightedge constrution?
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less-common "straightedge" is clearly and unambiguously unmarked.
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One particular plan of mine for this field is to deal with
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Woa, never mind, i did it and it's only 5 digits. weird.
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constructions which permit the ssolution of quartics.
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How much of the above shows up in Euclid, and where?
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Does it actually matter if a ruler is marked or not?
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For the record, a regular hexagon is constructible.
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