When a figure is balanced on a pivot in space it becomes elongated in all four directions that is the basic principle behind this square on a pivot.
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Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
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