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This curve is the quadratrix of Hippias, and it allows us to divide an angle into any number of equal parts. Here we want to trisect angle YCX.
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The truth is that I learn a lot of geometry with the witch and the sprites of Scratch. Without her I'am boring. I'm always thinking Seymour Papert and ...gears. We need some object to think (avec). I don't know....
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I wasn't familiar with Seymour Papert until you mentioned him and I looked him up on Wikipedia...now I find he lives in my home state of Maine! Funny...and I am a big admirer of his work, even though I didn't know it was his.
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That is a very smart witch! She knows a lot of geometry!
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really, the witch knows a lot of geometry of ancient Greece and she help me to understand better the way of mathematical thinking.
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