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Au contraire: The trisection is perfectly finite. It is as finite and precise as taking 3 atomic particles and dividing them into 3 individual atomic particles. Whereas, the fantasy of infinite precision in division is a mathematician's fantasy. A serious Star Trekker has perfectly reasonable...

As I use the word ruler, I intend the word straight edge. It is considered cheating to use a ruler. If you could make marks on the straight edge then Archimedes' method would be less effort.

I was given this same problem by my dad when I was young. He said the same thing, that it was 'proven' impossible. I invested quite a few hours trying different ways, because it seemed intuitively wrong. I have disagreed with the conclusion of math. The 'proof' is in error: The angle of any...