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Ad Quadratum Construction and Study of the Regular Polyhedra

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<strong>and</strong> from (6) we see that<br />

177<br />

But 3 2 (1)<br />

2 <br />

(1) <br />

21<br />

It can also be verified that if we assume<br />

1 4 21 (7)<br />

1 4 Q.E.D.<br />

1 4 <br />

<strong>the</strong>n 1 4 2<br />

or 2 4 1 0<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>refore 2 5<br />

as per our assumption, so that we can write directly, taking<br />

<strong>the</strong> positive root<br />

ri a<br />

1 4<br />

a<br />

5 3<br />

4<br />

Returning now to equation (4) <strong>and</strong> replacing with (5), we obtain in turn:

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