Re: inscribed pentagram...a real puzzle

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From: Carl G.
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:00

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Jellybean Stonerfish wrote in message ...
>someone asked me to make them a pentagram out of wood.  So I thought up
this
>puzzle on my way home from the lumber yard.....
>
>I have a circle...Lets say the diameter is one.
>What are the lengths of the sides of the following inscribed regular
>polygons?
>
>
>triangle
>
>square
>
>pentagon
>
>hexagon
>
>7-gon....(my geometry teacher said that the other names are wrong  call it
a
>7-gon )
>
>octagon
>
>Also is there a simple formula f(x) that you put in the number of sides and
>get the lengths of the sides?
>
>stonerfish


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