Re: Archimedes "front page hog" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test

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

>Subject: Re: -Why it took Math 3,000 years to understand a ellipse was never a conic section but rather a cylinder section and 330 years for a geometry proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

It's not 3,000 years old, but here's your math proof!

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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-Why it took Math 3,000 years to understand a ellipse was never a conic section but rather a cylinder section and 330 years for a geometry proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-04 14:50 -0800
  Re: Archimedes "front page hog" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-12-04 23:01 +0000
    Insane kook Moroney mocking MIT, Harvard, Cornell Archimedes Plutonium <plutonium.archimedes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-04 15:17 -0800
      Re: Archimedes "Village Idiot" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2018-12-05 07:03 +0000

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