{"id":628,"date":"2010-02-20T19:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-gro.dyn.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:52:21","slug":"mathematicians-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians suck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Finally I have some time to work through daily problems again. Worked this one last week and forgot to write it up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When I saw this problem I just saw the trigonometry solution and it blinded me to the symmetry. I guess math is good at showing how what we already know can blind us to the better paths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So why do mathematicians suck? Well that seemed politer for Konrad than saying he sucks \u2013 I worked on this problem for a while and just did not see it. He saw the answer before I was finished describing the problem. So I guess I am the one who sucks, &#8211; apologies to mathematicians everywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/square_in_circle_in_a_square1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630   \" title=\"square_in_circle_in_a_square1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/square_in_circle_in_a_square1.jpg\" alt=\"Area of a square - inside a circle - inside a square\" width=\"643\" height=\"830\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Area of a square - inside a circle - inside a square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally I have some time to work through daily problems again. Worked this one last week and forgot to write it up. When I saw this problem I just saw the trigonometry solution and it blinded me to the symmetry. I guess math is good at showing how what we already know can blind us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geometry","category-logic","category-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}