
Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math
The Joy of x
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The Curvilinear Triangle
A curvilinear triangle has three sides but they're arcs of a circle. When someone hears triangle, if they think with straight lines for the three sides, they're going to have the wrong measure. The next one that you put in will have radius one sixth um, which, again, is a bit of a miracle. Why is it the reciprocal of an inager one over an integer? Well, at this ixt when you put in o'll have radius one 14.
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