17 Sides By Mike Frost. What Can You Construct with Straight Edge and Compass? Lengths can be multiplied.

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17 Sides By Mike Frost

What Can You Construct with Straight Edge and Compass? Lengths can be multiplied

Lengths can be halved by Dropping a Perpendicular

Angles can be Halved

Square Roots can be taken But you can’t: Trisect an Angle or take Cube Roots

Constructing the Pentagon

Carl Friedrich Gauss To construct a Polygon with a prime number of sides n, n must be a Fermat Prime, of the form: F 0 = 3 F 1 = 5 F 2 = 17 F 3 = 257 F 4 = 65, 537 Five known Fermat Primes N=0,1,2,3,4

“Dr Euler’s Fabulous Formula” – by Paul Nahin

Cos (2 π / 17)... Cos (2 π / 3) = -0.5 Cos (2 π / 5) = (-1 + sqrt(5) ) / 4 Cos (2 π / 257) ?

...and Cos (2π/65,537) ??

The Biggest Constructible Odd-Numbered Polygon = 4, 294, 967, 295 Sides

Constructing the 17-Gon