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Posted 2022-8-13 03:26
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis_construction
Regular Polygons
In 2002, A. Baragar that showed that every point constructible with marked ruler and compass lies in a tower of fields over $\Bbb Q$,$$ \Bbb Q = K_0 \subset K_1 \subset \dots \subset K_n = K$$such that the degree of the extension at each step is no higher than 6. Of all prime-power polygons below the 100-gon, this is enough to show that the regular 23-, 29-, 43-, 47-, 49-, 53-, 59-, 67-, 71-, 79-, 83-, and 89-gons cannot be constructed with neusis. (If a regular $p$-gon is constructible, then $\zeta_p = e^\frac{2\pi i}{p}$ is constructible, and in these cases $p−1$ has a prime factor higher than 5.) |
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