Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11

00_NOP writes "Venn diagrams are all the rage in this election year, but drawing comprehensible diagrams for anything more than 3 sets has proved to be very difficult. Until the breakthrough just announced by Khalegh Mamakani and Frank Ruskey of the University of Victoria in Canada, nobody had managed to draw a simple (no more than two lines crossing), symmetric Venn diagram for more than 7 sets (only primes will work). Now they have pushed that on to 11. And it's pretty too."

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Re:beautiful

[Alex Belits]

There is nothing beautiful about Constitutional amendment that includes a right to lie with impunity and a right to have weapons useless for any purpose but killing small animals from a porch.