Ladder

Compass only — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. The midpoint of a segment, drawn with a compass and no straightedge. A segment with the arcs that step its length three times round one end to reach the point twice as far away, and the further arcs that send that point back to the midpoint, every one of them a circle.

    The straightedge buys nothing

    Every point a compass and a straightedge can construct together can be constructed by the compass alone. The straightedge draws lines nobody needs; the compass does the work, and the proof that it does is an inversion performed with arcs.

    rung 1 · computation

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