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Square roots and circular thoughts
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RED HERRING
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This is a picture of the red herring, by which Plato fooled Euclid
and many later students of the Dialog Timaeus. The colouring of the diagram
is made by me to emphazise the figure and at the same time distract from
the importance of the relationship between the quarter circle in the yellow
square partly hidden behind the blue A-format, and the diagonal in the
double square, which is the same as a half square..
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