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I'd be interested to hear his last words. Speaking of Covid, I read an amusing note recently that said this offers an excellent litmus...

This, by the way, is the actual fold template for the origami diamond. You can see that the pseudo-diagonals are now bisections...

My son just sent me this one: Hansel and Gretel suffered from munch house'n syndrome.

Making the world a better place one mnemonic at a time. Now I won't have to hear my grandkids shriek "Agh! A bee!"

Any Watt in the ML other than in lamps? Maybe Wei, Weir?

It took 70 years but it finally happened.

Gah! What is wrong with her hips??

Oh I see. The diagram is perfectly four-fold symmetrical - but it is not eight-fold symmetrical. And the 37/53 is reflected in the two...

I don't follow. The figure is perfectly symmetical. How can the central octagon not have eight 135 degree inner angles? Sunuvagun. So...

@DaveC426913 Start with a square and draw lines from all four corners to the midpoints of the two other sides of the square. I don't...

That looks like an origami 'diamond' base. Almost; not quite.

My boss just showed me this: Apparently, this has been around for a long time, not caught - and very widely written about.

OK, since I can't see the video, I can't follow what you're saying. I thought when you said "there were eight 3-4-5- triangles" you...

:headbang: Argh. Here I am going 'A-I-M-N-...' No, that can't be it... 'A-I-N-O-M...' No...

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