Viral Math News: Repeal Euclid's Fifth Postulate
An activist headline: a petition for Congress to repeal and replace Euclid's fifth postulate (the sign shows the hyperbolic alternative).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-12-07-viral-math-news-repeal-euclid-s-fifth-postulate/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Angry figure holding a sign: "A line + A point = MANY parallels"] "Time to Act: Sign this petition demanding that Congress repeal and replace Euclid's fifth postulate" [70,000 are talking about this]