Yeah, I’ve mostly been using the Latest page, but it seems like there’s no way to really tell where the end of topics with new replies since my last visit is, so I either have to just go until I get tired or the last post date if further back than my last visit. Another annoyance I’ve just notice, but the forum seems to steal ctrl+f when I try to search the text of a topic using Firefox’s find in page functionality. Though Home and End seem to just jump to the beginning and end of the current line as they would on any website… Kind of tempted to check what would happen if I tried visiting the forum after going into about:config and setting javascript.enabled to false.
Forgot to mention, but in case 42 making my list of favorite Integers didn’t give it away, but I’m a fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… I read the first four books in Highschool, own and read the Ultimate Guide Omnibus prior to going blind, picked up a CD box set of the Primary through Quintessential phases of the Radio Show after going blind, Saw the movie in theaters, and have never survived the destruction of Earth in the Infocom Game, though the game did lead to me learning what an analgesic is. All I know about the Television show is that it exists and being pretty sure both the Radio and Television versions are BBC productions.
And I do like me a good mathematical rabbit hole… though sadly, I can’t often explore them as well as I’d like, what with screen readers and any kind of graphic arts software mixing about as well as oil and water and there being only so much one can do with any particular construction toy(I absolutely love polydron and Zome tool, but they have their limitations. Sadly, all Google can find on the Golden Trisection is an article on a website called Sacred Geometry and a Penterest post persumably by the same person as the website… doesn’t stop me from wanting a rectangular prism, ellipsoid, and distorted octahedron with Golden Trisection as their aspect ratio. to add to my collection of math trinkets. Besides, diagonals of a regular polygon are involved, the heptagon is the first regular polygon not constructible with compass and straight-edge, and they are the first regular polygon diagonals outside the “Numbers famous for being famous” club(The triangle has no diagonals, the diagonal of the square is square root 2, the diagonal of the Pentagon is the Golden ratio, and the diagonals of a hexagon are square root 3 and 2)… plus, they are the first diagonals of a regular polygon without an exact representation with just the 4 basic functions and square roots… though, on a related note, you can calculate the shortest diagonal of any regular polygon with unit edge length by
sqrt(2 - 2cos(theta))
Where theta is the internal angle of the polygon. This result is derived from the law of cosines by taking the triangle formed by two adjacent edges and a shortest diagonal and simplifying since the edges are unit length… Sadly, I know no general means of calculating other diagonals.