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compass and straightedge construction
Sign in to saveAlso known as compass and straightedge constructions, ruler-and-compass construction, classical construction
way of drawing geometric objects using only an idealized compass and straightedge
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Vinony's link graph records 406 inbound references to compass and straightedge construction, and connects out to polygon, Carl Friedrich Gauss and subtraction.
It sits within the topics Ancient Greek mathematics and Straightedge and compass constructions.
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- Subclass of
- geometric construction
- Image
- Regular Hexagon Inscribed in a Circle 240px.gif
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- topic's main category
- Category:Compass and straightedge constructions
- Commons category
- Ruler-and-compass construction
- uses
- straightedge
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
Creating a regular hexagon with a straightedge and compass
Three-dimensional
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “compass and straightedge construction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.