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• Citation: Benjamin Franklin, From the Morals of Confucius, in The Pennsylvania Gazette, from February 28 to March 7, 1738.

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A scan was posted to math. I tried my hand at translating it. I have only learned modern Chinese, but I think I got most of it right. A digitized version is available, but see below (although I'm sure if I could read the accompanying text, I'd answer some of my questions).

Some math terminology: 勾 means the short leg of a right triangle, 股 the long leg, 弦 the hypotenuse.

A few questions:

• What does 實 most likely mean here? On purely linguistic grounds, is my interpretation plausible? If you want to comment on the mathematical plausibility

I showed my friend CrimthInc's To Change Everything and he had major problems with it:

Them: Also to say that the revolutions of the 20th century only brought people the right to be "bossed around by people of their same race, color, and ideology" is a ridiculous thing to say[...]it really shows the lack of even a basic, high school, understanding of the 20th century to say such things. It really discredits them wholly I think.

Me: Maybe it's hyperbole to make a point.

Them: But I do not even think it can be taken as a hyperbole. They are not exaggerating anything but creating things whole cloth. Really if they can do

I have heard this used to debunk the existence of races of humans, bit I've also heard it used to discuss male and female differences, without disputing the existence of male and female sexes. What's a general statistical interpretation of this statement (i.e., does it say something about the spread, or the variance?) and what kind of conclusions are valid to draw from it, for any populations?

All the Google Search results for 房間 are of a bedroom, although the Guifan dictionary just defines it as 房子內部隔成的單間, and MDBG translates it as "room."

From the Chairman's Bao article 朝鮮牡丹峰女子樂隊的演出被取消:

這次本來計劃在北京有三到五天的演出，臨時取消了讓大家都覺得很奇怪。

The CC-CEDICT definition is "at the instant sth happens / temporary / interim / ad hoc", and other dictionaries are similar. But nothing in the article makes it seem the cancellation was temporary. By "ad hoc" I assume it's something like "unexpected," is that the meaning here?

It occurs in this passage:

我請你們吃蛋糕，三角形的，特別好吃。不過你們不要說出去喲。

I can give more context if it's helpful.