Monthly Archives: December 2025

Square root extractor

How could you quickly find the square root of any number without log table or slide rule or any mathematical calculation, infact with nothing on hand but a pair of compasses and a graduated rule?

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The Plate of Pie

Diameter of the smallest circular plate on which a semi-circular pie can be placed if the pie is cut in sectors of the same radius as the pie.

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Pascal Contest 2023 Question 20 on Circles

Four larger circles with radius 5 are arranged so that the centers are the vertices of a square. Each of the larger circles is tangent to (that is, just touches) two of the other circles as shown. A smaller circle … Continue reading

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2023 Cayley Contest Question 23 on Quarter Circle

In the diagram ABC is a quarter circle centered at B. Each of the squares PQRS, square SRTB and square RUVT has side length 10. Points P and S are on AB, points T and V are on BC and … Continue reading

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2024 Pascal Contest Question 24 on Quarter Circles

2024 Pascal contest question 24. The key insight is to label the disjoint regions. Continue reading

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Equilateral triangles on adjacent sides of a random Parallelogram

Prove that a triangle drawn by connecting the vertices of two equilateral triangles drawn on the adjacent side of a random parallelogram is an equilateral triangle

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Equilateral triangles on the sides of a random triangle

Explore the problem using Geogebra Given a random triangle ABC. Draw two equilateral sides on sides AB and AC facing outwards. Let these equilateral triangles be ABD and ACE. Prove that DC = BE.

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MYP Question on Common Tangents to two touching circles

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MYP Question on Circle Theorem and Central Angle

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AP Calculus Finding limits from Graph of discontinuous function

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