[FOM] The regular heptadecagon

[Thomas Forster]

 A question came up in a seminar here the other day.... Gauss'
construction of the regular heptadecagon (17 sides) by compass 
and straightedge. Would a classical Greek, on being shown this 
construction, be able to see that the figure thus constructed 
was indeed a regular heptadecagon...?


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