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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Two (I think) interesting Problems
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 09:48:41 GMT
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- In article <Haavard.Johnsbraaten.4@tmlh.no> Haavard.Johnsbraaten@tmlh.no (Haavard Johnsbraaten) writes:
- >
- >To Gareth McCaughan.
- >
- >If I have misunderstood "your" folding procedure, I apologize.
- >I regard point 3 of your construction as a "doubling".
- >Then one of the angles of the regular pentagon is already
- >established in point 2 of the construction.
- >But this angle is 109.5 degrees and not 108 (the exact value).
- >I get this both by calculations and by measuring the angle.
- >Am I right?
-
- Aargh, yes you are. The angle is 2.atn(root(2)), which is indeed about 109.5
- degrees. I hereby apologise, with much grovelling, to anyone who believed me
- when I said this was an exact construction.
-
- I'm sure I checked *something* to do with it was right. Perhaps I worked out
- one of the other angles, and got it to be something with root(5) in, and
- decided it must be right. I can't be bothered to work out now what the other
- angles are...
-
- Oh dear. Sorry.
-
- --
- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
-