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geometry

Dec 14, 2019

A Geometric One-Liner

Which boxes have a volume equal to their surface area? One line of Python finds them all, and a week of brute force can't find any more.

Jul 27, 2012

The Story of Squaring a Triangle

Back in 1998, I overheard my high school math teacher musing to another teacher about the following problem: Given a line segment of unit length, select any…