
Re: ZzPT (new design)
According to legend, the mysterious story of Zzzz and its "short nap" version, Zz, was quietly shelved by the Squared Circles Committee (SCC); only the geometry was permitted publication ... and with minimal explanation. The intent was to maintain popular belief that squaring a circle is impossible. After all, this fact had been proven mathematically - end of story!
Today, the widely accepted "impossibility" still reigns but has been challenged by a recent revelation ...

In a diary found in a dusty old attic, reference to a missing page of the original hand-written story of Zzzz is recorded. The diary entry refers to a plastic overlay for the page showing the Zz geometry. Further, the missing overlay was noted as being explicitly removed by an SCC agent because it suggested the existence of geometric proof of a squared circle.
Well, an intriguing diary entry but still not much of a revelation! However, when the contents of the attic were removed later for house demolition, a certain plastic page was noticed on top of the debris in a trash can. By this time, the diary had already been moved to temporary storage for a planned "garage sale".
Long story short ...
The demolition team's custodian, who had briefly inspected that plastic page, was also a customer during the garage sale later that year. He had not kept the plastic page, but easily remembered the simple geometric object: an isosceles right triangle. Of course, he was aware that many of the items for sale were saved from the house that had been demolished. But not until he browsed the pages of the diary did he know that the plastic page in the trash can and the diary's story about Zzzz were related.

Having been properly diagnosed with the "disease" of morbus cyclometricus (MC), this professional geometer had been asked to resign several years before his planned retirement. Since his severance pay was adequate, he worked part time for the demolition company and spent frugally while pursing impulsive MC explorations. After all, MC has no observable symptoms unless one talks about the rare appetite for this "impossible" geometry. "A secret shared is an oxymoron." was one of his favorite quotes (found online once during his many daily hours of surfin').
But I digress ...
One day while surfin', this hapless geometer was contemplating the diary's entry about Zzzz and its seeming relation to the plastic page when he chanced upon archived material showing the Zzzz geometry. "Not that impressive!" he thought ... "And aptly titled, considering the repetitive geometry and allusion to snoring. But it does well-represent the geometry of a squared circle." (he knew this thanks to the incessant motivation and inspiration of his MC affliction).

"So, what was the purpose, meaning, and value of the plastic overlay?" he wondered. Within minutes, the baffling "ZzPT" note in the diary's entry had revelatory meaning: "PT" referred to Pythagoras' Theorem and its cursive attachment to "Zz" hinted that the overlay - the isosceles right triangle - performed geometric magic (or so he fantasized).
Indeed, when he reconstructed the Zz geometry, including his conjectured dimensions of the right triangle, angular magic seemed to materialize. The right triangle, as an overlay of the Zz scalene triangle, revealed identical 17.403.. degree angles and intimated proof that the circle is squared!
So, what is that proof? I don't know! His lips are still ZzPT.
Rod ...

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