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Comment author: Douglas_Knight2 09 September 2007 04:15:34AM 3 points [-]

The ancient Greeks themselves played around with the rules. Archimedes used a "marked straightedge" to trisect an angle.

The first hit on google for trisect an angle is about ways to do it, not discussions of impossibility.