On Sun Feb 11 14:11:16 2024 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

The problem for the college professor admitting the truth slant cut of cylinder is truly a ellipse for both have 2 axes of symmetry but a cone has only 1 axis of symmetry and so the slant cut yields a Oval not ellipse. Trouble for a math professor like

Terence Tao or Andrew Wiles or Thomas Hales or Ken Ribet, or Ruth Charney or John Baez or John Stillwell or almost every college math professor admitting the truth on conics, is the moment they admit that truth, is the exact moment that they admit to
being a mindless nitwit in math geometry for much of their stay in mathematics.

Note to AP:

You need to change one word in the above. Only one word. Yoou need to remove the word, "almost" in the second sentence.

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