Barry Cynamon
@cynamon.bsky.social
By day, recovering economist and lender with a heart at Student Freedom Fund. On here, mostly random thoughts. I like science fiction, biotechnology, household finance, causal inference, home fermentation, and powerlifting.
I discovered one interesting fact while messing around with this. You can orient successive polygons in the circumscription problem to push the center of the limiting circle to the center of the starting triangle. No arrangement achieves that for the inscription problem.
September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I discovered one interesting fact while messing around with this. You can orient successive polygons in the circumscription problem to push the center of the limiting circle to the center of the starting triangle. No arrangement achieves that for the inscription problem.
Here is the “dual” problem, where instead of nesting In the interior of the preceding polygon (inscribing n+1 within n) you nest the preceding polygon (inscribing n within n+1).
September 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Here is the “dual” problem, where instead of nesting In the interior of the preceding polygon (inscribing n+1 within n) you nest the preceding polygon (inscribing n within n+1).
Really enjoyed catching up with my brother earlier. He mentioned he had been contemplating nesting successive regular polygons. That throwaway comment grabbed ahold of my imagination and…
September 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Really enjoyed catching up with my brother earlier. He mentioned he had been contemplating nesting successive regular polygons. That throwaway comment grabbed ahold of my imagination and…
Dropping that Lucas Critique.
August 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dropping that Lucas Critique.
What’s the most perfectly cast role in cinema history…
July 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What’s the most perfectly cast role in cinema history…