Abstract
In summer 1995, two high school students, David Goldenheim and Dan Litchfield, discovered a way to divide a line segment into any number of equal parts. Their method differed from the standard method of Euclid. Together with their teacher Charles Dietrich, they wrote an article on their method, which appeared in the January 1997 issue of the Mathematics Teacher (Litchfield, Goldenheim, and Dietrich 1997). The discovery received considerable publicity in the popular media and was written up in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The authors gave talks at several professional conferences and were invited to meet the secretary of education.
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