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Kürschak’s tile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

G. L. Alexanderson  and
Kenneth Seydel
G. L. Alexanderson
Affiliation:
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara California 95053, USA
Kenneth Seydel
Affiliation:
Skyline College, San Bruno, California 94066, USA
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Why is such a nice result rarely, if ever, found in texts? Perhaps because it is usually necessary to use trigonometry to calculate the areas of regular polygons. A regular n-gon inscribed in a unit circle has an area n times that of the isosceles triangle having an edge as base and the centre as apex; that is,

area of regular n-gon = n × (1/2. 1.1. sin (360/n)°) = 1/2n sin (360/n)°.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 62 , Issue 421 , October 1978 , pp. 192 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1978

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