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Your prompt was ambiguous and wouldn’t seem out of place on a math olympiad. You didn’t ask it to “square a circle,” you asked it for instructions on drawing a square with the same area as a circle using geometric equivalencies instead of measurements and formulas.


That's quite precisely what squaring a circle is, isn't it? The challenge of constructing a square with the area of a circle by using only a finite number of steps with a compass and straightedge. What am I missing?


That I sucked at math olympiads :)




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