Toby and Diana on an MIT Mathematics Entrance Exam from 1876

It's not easy! See Euclid's Elements Book VI Proposition 2. Abraham Lincoln could've got in to MIT to study Math: from Wikipedia - Euclid's Elements

Abraham Lincoln kept a copy of Euclid in his saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight; he related that he said to himself, "You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight"

I bet Donald Trump could do this too! They say he's just like Abe Lincoln, ...

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