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Impossible Geometry - Squaring the Circle

You investigate three famous construction problems that were posed in antiquity and remained unsolved until the 1800s. Using a straightedge and a compass, is it possible to (1) double a cube, (2) trisect every angle, or (3) construct a square with the same area as a given circle?

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