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bombcartoday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

These are obvious problems to someone who has studied enough math/geometry/calculus to know how one form of "adding boxes together gets a curve" and another "adding boxes together does NOT get you a curve".


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bastawhiztoday at 4:22 PM

Are visual proofs meant for someone who hasn't studied math? I wouldn't expect them to prove anything to someone who hasn't. Any proof that's incorrect could reasonably fool a layman.