{"id":426,"date":"2002-07-21T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2002-07-22T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=426"},"modified":"2004-10-21T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T05:51:40","slug":"never-say-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"never say impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.euclidchallenge.org\/>Milton Mintz<\/a> has struggled since 1963 to do the impossible: to trisect the angle, square the circle and double the cube using &#8220;only&#8221; a compass and straightedge.  He shows procedures for the first two, which I have not attempted to verify because they look like a cheat: a key step is to take a tip of the compass in each hand and move them with equal speed.  If one can control one&#8217;s hands with such precision, I say, one may as well dispense with the straightedge.<\/p>\n<p>At least he&#8217;s not angry like the <a href=http:\/\/www.timecube.com\/>Time Cube<\/a> guy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Later:<\/i> one George Byrd passes along this <a href=http:\/\/www.ies.co.jp\/math\/java\/geo\/angtrisec\/angtrisec.html>mechanical trisector<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milton Mintz has struggled since 1963 to do the impossible: to trisect the angle, square the circle and double the cube using &#8220;only&#8221; a compass and straightedge. He shows procedures for the first two, which I have not attempted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}