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On the construction of the regular hendecagon by marked ruler and compass

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

ELLIOT BENJAMIN
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, CALCampus, N.H. 03461, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
C. SNYDER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMaine, Orono, ME 04469, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We prove that the regular hendecagon (11-gon) is constructible by marked ruler and compass.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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