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Re: Archimedes "Total Failure" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test

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Math Failure Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> fails:

<snip failure>

So once again, Archie is unable to prove the ellipse is not a conic 
section. Archie is unable to respond without his cubbyhole dweller
critter and stalker lists. FOUR stalker lists this time!!

So Archie, why can't you prove the following proof is wrong?
Why can't you even respond without multiple stalker lists or your
ascii cubbyhole dweller?


Below you will find a simple *proof* that shows that certain conic 
sections are ellipses.

Some preliminaries:

Top view of the conic section and depiction of the coordinate system used 
in the proof:

              ^ x
              |
             -+- <= x=h
         .'   |   `.
        .     |     .
        |     |     |
        '     |     '      
         `.   |   .'
 y <----------+ <= x=0
             
Cone (side view):
                 .
                /|\
               / | \
              /b |  \
             /---+---' <= x = h
            /    |'   \
           /   ' |     \
          / '    |      \
x = 0 => '-------+-------\
        /    a   |        \

Proof:

r(x) = a - ((a-b)/h)x  and  d(x) = a - ((a+b)/h)x,  hence

y(x)^2 = r(x)^2 - d(x)^2 = ab - ab(2x/h - 1)^2 = ab(1 - 4(x - h/2)^2/h^2.

Hence (1/ab)y(x)^2 + (4/h^2)(x - h/2)^2 = 1  ...equation of an ellipse

qed

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Edward Bender, James Bunch, Thomas Enright of UCSD insist on teaching moron-geometry of ellipse, rather than true geometry-- for they deny ellipse is cylinder section, never a conic cut Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 16:22 -0700
  Re: Archimedes "Total Failure" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-08-28 01:27 +0000
  Re: Archimedes "Total Failure" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-08-28 03:07 +0000

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