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#1 2006-02-27 16:32:16
- Ricky
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Fence
You have 8 feet of fencing, and are asked to enclose the largest area within that fence as possible. What do you do?
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#2 2006-02-27 17:11:21
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Fence
Ricky, this was posted here long back, here. 
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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