alt Hacker NewsMy reading is that it's a convenient near-7 approximation someone developed, like using 22/7 for pi.
Certainly good enough for practical handheld construction purposes, but not geometric-proof-y stuff.
My reading is that it's a convenient near-7 approximation someone developed, like using 22/7 for pi.
Certainly good enough for practical handheld construction purposes, but not geometric-proof-y stuff.
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Simultaneous folding is mathematically a strictly more powerful primitive.Are you familiar with Lill's method of finding real roots of polynomials of any degree ? Simultaneous folds are a realization of the same idea
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lill%27s_method#Finding_root...