Milton Mintz has struggled since 1963 to do the impossible: to trisect the angle, square the circle and double the cube using “only” 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’s hands with such precision, I say, one may as well dispense with the straightedge.
At least he’s not angry like the Time Cube guy.
Later: one George Byrd passes along this mechanical trisector.
wow, Gene Ray (Time Cube) keeps getting weirder. I regret the insult to Mintz of comparing them.