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“Match-Stick” Geometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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The following paper arose out of an attempt to improve upon the familiar “match puzzles” one sees in the popular press and which are generally too puerile to be interesting. Following some desultory experiments, it developed that the methods of construction postulated are capable of determining all points obtainable with ruler and compass, but no others. The sequence of results below is arranged to establish this conclusion.
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