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~06 Mathematical Recreations

Let 8,. be the area of a regular n-gon with side 1 unit long.

Then 8 a = ly'3, 8 4 = 1, 8 G = ty'3, and 8 12 = 6 + 3y'3,

FIGURE 91.

FIGURE 92.

so that 8 6 = 683 and 8 12 = 1283 + 684 • Actually a hexagon

can be decomposed into 6 triangles with the same side,

and a dodecagon into 12 triangles and 6 squares, as shown in

Figure 95. Hence we may replace a 6 by 3, 3 in the table of

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