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Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:12 pm

You can blame my brother for this one. Euclidian Geometry puzzles. They are so hard. I can't imagine what the mathing was like way back when they were first discovering this stuff. Now we have all this technology to solve these problems for us, but they could do amazing things with a compass and a straight edge. So amazing.

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Re: Euclidea

Postby Kyle » Thu Dec 22, 2016 11:52 am

Eli- you're the best. This is the greatest thing ever.

If you want to understand OCD- know that the satisfaction of solving some of these is akin to heaven.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Fri Dec 23, 2016 11:46 am

I love them so! And so insanely satisfying when you get them. How are y'all doing star-wise?
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Mike » Fri Dec 23, 2016 12:46 pm

So awesome. No words.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Tahlvin » Fri Dec 23, 2016 3:42 pm

Thank you for posting this. It's a nice exercise for this math/stat major's tired old brain!
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Bluedevyl » Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:55 pm

Yeah, I haven't been able to stop doing these for 2 days... so great
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Kyle » Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:45 pm

I'm getting real pissed off about the bisecting a rectangle on an angle into two equal portions. I've been able to do it with a circle and a line, matching the "explore mode" exactly, but it won't give me a correct answer.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Mike » Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:05 pm

All I know is my food tastes better when I take my food-tastes-better pill.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:54 pm

I can't get the inscribed square (a.7) puzzle down to the right number of elements. I've gotten it in 8, but not 7. So frustrating!
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Mike » Mon Dec 26, 2016 3:48 pm

All I know is my food tastes better when I take my food-tastes-better pill.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Mon Dec 26, 2016 6:45 pm

I'm going to take the fact that Flame can't get it either as a point of pride.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Mon Dec 26, 2016 11:25 pm

I've gotten it down to 7 elements...but it doesn't start on the right point. Grar!
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Mike » Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:24 am

All I know is my food tastes better when I take my food-tastes-better pill.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Ronster » Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:35 am

still doing better than me...I plotted the 60degree line using the side of an equiangular triangle but it won't give me a completion. I must be doing it wrong :(
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:53 pm

I GOT IT!!!!!! Mike's hint helped. I will now give two hints. The first line will give you a point on the larger circle. A very helpful point and one useful later.

The second hint. You will not actually draw the square yourself. I mean, you will, but you don't actually make all four sides.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Mike » Tue Dec 27, 2016 7:46 pm

Got it.

Damn that was hard.

Now I have all the Alpha puzzles solved, and I have one bonus star, but two more of them have bonus stars in them, and I don't even begin to know how to find them. I don't even know which puzzles have them.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Bluedevyl » Tue Dec 27, 2016 8:27 pm

I am totally jammed up on 3.4 and can NOT figure it out for the life of me.
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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:00 pm

Mike: I have all the secret stars in alpha. The list of their locations is hidden below.

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Re: Euclidea

Postby Eliahad » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:01 pm

"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to roll an 8."

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