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Robert Bonomi
 
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Morris Dovey wrote:
Robert Bonomi (in ) said:

| *sigh*
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| The length of a side of an "n-ogon" inscribed in a circle is:
| 2*sin(180/n)

I /almost/ hate to do this to you, but the length of a side of an
"n-gon" inscribed in a circle of radius r is:
2*r*sin(180/n)


The dimension of a circle is *always* "1", when the unit of measure is a
"radius", and thus it drops out of the formula. *GRIN*