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Of the Esseints's avatar

dude this was so good until the ungodly computation at the end: let the radius oa=ob=oc=1, then from oae right-iso you get OE = rt2, so ce = 1+rt2 and bc = 2.

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Andrew Wu's avatar

Whoops just realized who u r lmao

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Andrew Wu's avatar

o u r smart

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CJ Quines's avatar

Yes, Substack doesn’t have superscripts. You’ll have to deal » there's the unicode ², so x²

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Andrew Wu's avatar

how r u so smart

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xinke's avatar

Nice! I tried to get some geometric intuition for this function a while back, but didn't think to try a geometric interpretation of the expression at all.

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Andrew Wu's avatar

Thanks! It was fun :D

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