Re: inscribed pentagram...a real puzzle

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

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Odd, my last reply seems to have been clipped right after the word "Spoiler"
(the copy in my "Sent Items" folder was complete).  Here is the reply again.

Carl G.

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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