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by theyinwhy 752 days ago
I can't pass the opportunity to post https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
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Nice. After five minutes: 95.6% with a mouse; 96.2% with a Wacom tablet; trackpad (Apple Magic 2), hopeless.

As for opportunistically relevant posting: see the first chapter of Felix Klein's Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry[1] for a bit on the geometric theory behind the planimeter.

[1] https://archive.org/details/elementary_mathematics_geometry/