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Forum Name: Thoughts and Suggestions
Topic ID: 15
Message ID: 1
#1, RE: The impossible Compass
Posted by alexb on Jun-09-07 at 11:41 AM
In response to message #0

>Think about it ;)

I did. But what if one's hands are not quite steady? And what if you need to draw a line (as Euclid has stipulated long time ago) between two points farther away than the openning of your compass?