squaring the circle
1Squaring the circle — Squaring the circle: the areas of this square and this circle are equal. In 1882, it was proven that this figure cannot be constructed in a finite number of steps with an idealized compass and straightedge …
2squaring the circle — quadrature of the circle * * * squaring the circle 1. Finding a square of the same area as a circle, which for hundreds of years was attempted by Euclidean means (ie with straight edge and compass) until in 1882 it was proved impossible (also… …
3squaring the circle. — See quadrature of the circle. * * * …
4squaring the circle. — See quadrature of the circle …
5squaring the circle — noun a) The historical problem of how to construct, using compass and ruler, a square having the same area as a given circle. b) A hopeless or impossible …
6squaring the circle — problem which has no solution, redundant problem (like making a circle into a square) …
7Squaring the square — is the problem of tiling an integral square using only other integral squares. (An integral square is a square whose sides have integer length.) The name was coined in a humorous analogy with squaring the circle. Squaring the square is an easy… …
8square the circle — When someone is squaring the circle, they are trying to do something impossible …
9quadrature of the circle — a problem in mathematics that consists of finding the side of a square exactly equal in area to a given circular area and that has been shown to be impossible of solution by geometric methods limited to the use of ruler and compass alone * * *… …
10quadrature of the circle — Math. the insoluble problem of constructing, by the methods of Euclidean geometry, a square equal in area to a given circle. Also called squaring the circle. [1590 1600] * * * …
