SalaciousMonkey22
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This is why math isn’t a scienceSo I called a @OnaTangent a square in a thread and he never argued with me that he isn't. To tell you the honest truth that kinda deflated my exuberance at the time because, well to me anyway, I thought of a really cool proof to go along with my aspersions of the guy. The thread originally where I called him a square is the "Why Haven't You PMd the Poster Above You?" thread.
So here's the proof;
Euclid actually proved the framework for this proof, so not wanting to go into all the details the underlying proofs can be found in Euclid’s Elements. This has actually stood the test of time for oh.. about 2300 years, so you can’t argue the facts.
Now as he is on a tangent (T) that means he intersects a circle with radius (r) perpendicular to the tangent he is on, please see Fig 1.
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Now, we remove the circle and its associated radius, which leaves us with just the tangent and the right-angle symbol between the radius and the tangent, see Fig. 2.
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What we find is that this is a square and seeing that it is the only thing on the tangent, that means if you are OnaTangent then all you can be is a square.
QED.
