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He didn't prove the wiggly-sided paralellogram -> rectangle transition when the angle of each slice goes to 0. He also did not prove that he is allowed to take
by anon4 12y ago
He didn't prove the wiggly-sided paralellogram -> rectangle transition when the angle of each slice goes to 0. He also did not prove that he is allowed to take the angle to 0. I can grant him that any angle > 0 results in a less and less squigglier paralellogram with more and more vertical sides with an obvious proof, but that doesn't prove either that the limit is a rectangle, or that reasoning at the limit is transitive to reasoning about the circle.
I don't doubt the result or the method - they both seem intuitively correct, they just aren't proven.
- judk 12y agoGood luck seeking proof. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument