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You can also just use an infinite quantity of compasses as on-off switches.
Title text: You can also just use an infinite quantity of compasses as on-off switches.

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Mathematicians supposedly proved you couldnt back in 1882
Imagine your compass and straightedge.
They were wrong
First, you put a pencil on one end of the compass and an eraser on the other
Second you designate any number of tiny boxes on your straightedge. Using the compass, you can draw or erase symbols on the straightedge.
And what's that called?
So, now we can rephrase the problem: Using only a computer, can you construct a square with the same area as a given circle?
A turing machine
Using this general method, we can unlock all compass and straightedge" problems/
Accidentally or strategically2 are you missing the point
I'm mosting

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