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Originally Posted by Thunder Bow
The Medicine Wheel is a spinning living concept that must not be held still to long, or it will die. Thus, if you "Square" the circle it will die.
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Perhaps that's how it existed for so long amongst native cultures.
The Alchemist where the ones who where doing the squaring; And Like I said-- it's impossible..
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In 1882, the task was proven to be impossible, as a consequence of the Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem which proves that pi (π) is a transcendental, rather than an algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. It had been known for some decades before then that the construction would be impossible if pi were transcendental, but pi was not proven transcendental until 1882. Approximate squaring to any given non-perfect accuracy, in contrast, is possible in a finite number of steps, since there are rational numbers arbitrarily close to π.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle >
The expression "squaring the circle" is sometimes used as a metaphor for trying to do the impossible.
The wheel lives on, I'm not sure it can really die; maybe just to us....
*Edited by SF Staff to add link to source as required by law.