Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Mathologer" channel.

  1. Reminding us that the pun is the lowest form of humor -- so once again the trip to zero raises its head.
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  2.  @dodokgp  "Pun intended" has always struck me as a litmus for stupidity, even when there's a pun there, which here, as usual, there isn't.
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  3. Um, how do you put ten points evenly spaced on the perimeter of a circle? Oh, yeah, that olde math trick: assume you have the ten points there, right? -dlj.
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  4. +Mathologer Sorry, I'm serious. I don't believe you. I don't think you can do ten with ruler and compass (Can you? 72 degrees sounds as though it ought to come out of Pythagoras somewhere, but rule-and-compass?) As for your claim that you've done it, I don't believe that, until you tell me more I think your video software is guessing and giving you a numerical approximation, which is a different proposition entirely. Cheers, -dlj.
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  5. Mathologer  OK, you're right, I was wrong.  I'd thought ten was off the list (I knew about Fermat's gravestone, so I was careful about 17), and I goofed.   Incidentally, your videos here are really superb -- and your underlying idea for the whole piece is equally fine.  Good work!      -dlj.
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  6. I made it to the very end!
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