– by Horatio Algeranon
Fitting a circle
With a square
Takes a “skeptic”
With a flair.
Squaring the circle (technically different than "curve fitting") is an impossibility (proved in 1882).
But that certainly hasn't stopped the global warming "skeptics" from trying (see, for example, "Don’t estimate acceleration by fitting a quadratic... if your data do not look like a quadratic!" )
But that certainly hasn't stopped the global warming "skeptics" from trying (see, for example, "Don’t estimate acceleration by fitting a quadratic... if your data do not look like a quadratic!" )
