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Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:03:44 -0400, Cliff wrote:

On 20 Sep 2005 09:29:47 -0700, "John Martin"
wrote:

Maybe because you can lay out a hexagon on a circle with just a compass
and straightedge?

Doesn't work, you still wind up with an unused (0.14159 * radius)
circumference.


Yes it does. The segments that comprise the circumfrence of
an inscribed hexagon are chords, not arcs. Each one is
(0.14159 * radius)/6 shorter than the arc they span.

Only six points of the circle lie on the hexagon, at the six
corners.

Thanks for making me think.

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FF