POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 09:18:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 2 Jun 2008 15:17:08
Message: <48444734$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>>     Yes - wasn't that proven only recently?
> 
> I heard about it recently, like in the last couple of years.

	Actually, I found it - proven in 1990.

> Something like 10^50 cuts or something?  I know it's on Wolfram's 
> mathworld somewhere, but I don't remember the name of it, so it's hard 
> to find.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_circle-squaring_problem


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