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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  and
C. SNYDER
ELLIOT BENJAMIN
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, CALCampus, N.H. 03461, U.S.A. e-mail: ben496@prexar.com
C. SNYDER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UMaine, Orono, ME 04469, U.S.A. e-mail: snyder@math.umaine.edu
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Abstract

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

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 409 - 424
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2014 

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