Describing a hopeless, meaningless, or vain undertaking.
Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.
In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible.
Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.
In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible.
In Spanish, the expression "descubriste la cuadratura del círculo" or square the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square.
In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible," ("you discovered the quadrature of the circle") is often used derisively to dismiss claims that someone has found a simple solution to a particularly hard or intractable problem.
In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible," ("you discovered the quadrature of the circle") is often used derisively to dismiss claims that someone has found a simple solution to a particularly hard or intractable problem.
by bbennet111 August 15, 2010
Get the square the circle mug.The following events are actual and transpired in the early morning of December 28, 2008, between 1:29 and 2:15 AM, on Vine Avenue in Park Ridge, near Chicago Illinois.
Names have been changed to protect the innocent and unfortunate bystanders.
Two teens, one aged 17, whom I shall not name, and the other aged 16, to whom I'll refer as Andrew, were walking down Vine Avenue, filming a documentary for English Class. Why they were doing so at almost 2 in the morning has not been discovered. A friend of theirs, to whom ill refer as Ross, lived nearby. As they walked past his house with the camera, speaking the dialogue they had prepared, A flash of purple light shone out through the upper bedroom window or Ross' residence. Those who know the street and can recall the events of that unholy day, will recall that all the streetlamps were mysteriously shattered, and seeing as this was on the outskirts of town, the sky was almost pitch black. Back to the purple light. After about 30 seconds of the light flash, Ross came sprinting out of his home shouting something unintelligible. As the two teens and the camera turns to face him, Something or someone hit the one carrying the camera, Andrew and knocks him unconscious (presumably). The camera falls to the ground but does not break. From the way it lands, we can see the face of Ross. Those who had the misfortune to watch the tape can make out that Ross says something along the lines of "The 'white square', it cut it open, the blood is leaking all over my kitchen floor. This is where the tape cuts out, and two deafening, sickening noises, resembling a aluminum bat crushing someone’s skull are heard. The remains of the 3 boys were never found, only the camera tape laid nearby, bearing only the fingerprints of Andrew.
Names have been changed to protect the innocent and unfortunate bystanders.
Two teens, one aged 17, whom I shall not name, and the other aged 16, to whom I'll refer as Andrew, were walking down Vine Avenue, filming a documentary for English Class. Why they were doing so at almost 2 in the morning has not been discovered. A friend of theirs, to whom ill refer as Ross, lived nearby. As they walked past his house with the camera, speaking the dialogue they had prepared, A flash of purple light shone out through the upper bedroom window or Ross' residence. Those who know the street and can recall the events of that unholy day, will recall that all the streetlamps were mysteriously shattered, and seeing as this was on the outskirts of town, the sky was almost pitch black. Back to the purple light. After about 30 seconds of the light flash, Ross came sprinting out of his home shouting something unintelligible. As the two teens and the camera turns to face him, Something or someone hit the one carrying the camera, Andrew and knocks him unconscious (presumably). The camera falls to the ground but does not break. From the way it lands, we can see the face of Ross. Those who had the misfortune to watch the tape can make out that Ross says something along the lines of "The 'white square', it cut it open, the blood is leaking all over my kitchen floor. This is where the tape cuts out, and two deafening, sickening noises, resembling a aluminum bat crushing someone’s skull are heard. The remains of the 3 boys were never found, only the camera tape laid nearby, bearing only the fingerprints of Andrew.
The Video of The White Square Incident was available on Youtube, but was removed 3 days after posting, under the authority of the Park Ridge Police Dept.
by Fear the Sauce March 12, 2009
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