Comment by Supermancho

> Seriously, what's the point of this?

A straightforward, accurate, explanation for the eponymous headline.

I don't care about the lore related to Gauss. I read that in school and promptly forgot most of it. This article won't resonate with me, except to attribute the heptadecagon with Gauss in a nebulous way. Maybe I'll even remember what his proof was for, in a few years.