Foolproof

by Brian Hayes

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TITLE	Foolproof	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Brian Hayes	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Brian Hayes is Senior Writer for American Scientist.; Additional material related to the “Computing; Science ” column appears in Hayes’s Weblog at	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	http://bit-player.org. Address: 211 Dacian Avenue,; Durham, NC 27701. Internet:	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Mathematical proof is foolproof, it seems, only in the absence of fools I was a teenage angle trisector. In my first full-time job, fresh out of high school, I trisected angles all day long for $1.75 an hour. My employer was a maker of voltmeters, ammeters and other electrical instruments. This was back in the analog age, when a meter had a slender pointer swinging in an arc across a scale. My job was drawing the scale. A technician would calibrate	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
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