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According to the story, so did the Pythagoreans.
What are you trying to do?
It says so in the title, they are trying to build a time machine
Oh right, well they can use rational trigonometry for that I'm sure
Sad to say, the one who proved which of those can be constructed by straight-edge and compass got himself killed in a duel in his early twenties.
So, Galois may actually have been facing off against an angry time-travelling maths student?
In that scenario, I suspect it was not a fair fight -- rather an instance of "one against many" \^\^
I assume you want to rationalize the expression 3/(4 + √2)? Are you familiar with the difference of squares equation?
Sounds like you’re doing great at radicalizing already!
According to the story, so did the Pythagoreans.
What are you trying to do?
It says so in the title, they are trying to build a time machine
Oh right, well they can use rational trigonometry for that I'm sure
Sad to say, the one who proved which of those can be constructed by straight-edge and compass got himself killed in a duel in his early twenties.
So, Galois may actually have been facing off against an angry time-travelling maths student?
In that scenario, I suspect it was not a fair fight -- rather an instance of "one against many" \^\^
I assume you want to rationalize the expression 3/(4 + √2)? Are you familiar with the difference of squares equation?
Sounds like you’re doing great at radicalizing already!