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For the past three weeks, since my math class ended equation manipulating, my teacher decided it would be fun to get ahead for next year. Thus, instead of doing anything remotely fun... we studied Euclid's first book of elements. We've done the entire first book(all 48 propositions)and I can safely say that next year, in honors geometry, I will not have fun.
Brilliant man though, very brilliant. It's not necessarily so hard, as much it is boring and repetitive. Stupid Euclid, and your parallel watcha ma bobs. Arrrr...
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I wonder if it would be possible to do something else next year, something you don't already know? After all, it is *honors* geometry.
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Old Euclid drew a circle on a sandbeach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it with angles thus and so. His set of solemn graybeards nodded and argued much Of arc and of circumference, diameter and such. A silent child stood by them from morning until noon because they drew such charming round pictures of the moon.
-- "Euclid" -- Vachel Lindsay
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