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Compass Constructions: How to Construct a Regular 17-gon

January 10, 2018Original blog post

Constructing a regular 17-gon: read the directions, stare blankly, Google a picture, pretend you did it.

Transcript

Regular 17-gon: "1. read directions" [a dense Wikipedia construction] "2. blank stare" "3. cheat" [Google search: "picture of regular 17-gon"] "4. pretend you did it"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-10-compass-constructions-made-easy--compass-constructions-how-to-construct-a-regular-17-gon/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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