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Apoorv Upreti

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13 Feb 2020 • 1 min read

Really fun interactive essay on how gears work.

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The Fourth Dimension

This simulation [https://ciechanow.ski/tesseract/] demonstrates the tesseract, which is roughly speaking a four dimensional cube. i.e., just as a cube (a three dimensional object) is made of six equally sized squares (two dimensional object), the tesseract is an object in four

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Here's [https://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/RABH.shtml] a really elegant proof for the area of a circle. We assume the circle is made up of an infinite number of circular lines. We then straighten the lines out and stack them

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