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Modenov's computations as a corpus, with the book's errors as rows that must be refused #2153

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@Rafael-SOWNet

Reading Modenov's Problems in Geometry for #2131 produced the book's computations in a form AngouriMath can run. That is several hundred identities, determinants, equations and loci, each with what the library does with it today. It also found about 80 errors in the book, each confirmed by computing. Some examples:

  • a wrong arc in Chapter III Problem 10: arccos(9/16) where 2·arccos(−1/(2√2)) is meant;
  • A = 2π/7 where π/7 is meant in Problem 45;
  • Problem 43 is false as stated;
  • the general-coordinate angle formulas in Chapter V use the wrong metric.

Wanted: a corpus of these, recorded the way Sources/Tests/UnitTests/Corpus records its problems, as solved, unsolved, wrong, error or timeout.

This is what #1409 did with Sullivan's book.

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  1. added this to the 2.8 milestone on Oct 27, 2026
  2. Rafael-SOWNet commented on Nov 15, 2026

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    Nothing of this is in the library yet. The readings in the workspace were probed at 725481ca4 and have gone stale both ways: x/(x+y) + y/(x+y) is now 1 provided not x + y = 0 (#2137) and D2 now reaches 0, while x*(1 - 1/x) still drops its condition (#2134). That is the case for rows that report their own verdict. Plan: the probe rows as a data file run by a CasBench-style runner, with a committed baseline of solved/unsolved/wrong/error/timeout, and the errata rows asserting that the book's printed form is not confirmed. Chapter III first.

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