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Compass Constructions: How to Construct a Venn Diagram

January 10, 2018Original blog post

Constructing a Venn diagram with a compass: drawing with a compass is the overlap of origami (hard to do) and Faulkner (hard to understand).

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Venn diagram: "1. draw circle" "2. draw other circle" "3. add labels": Origami (infuriating because hard to do) · Faulkner (infuriating because hard to understand) · overlap: drawing with compass

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-10-compass-constructions-made-easy--compass-constructions-how-to-construct-a-venn-diagram/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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