What can we do with only a pair of rusty compasses?

DOI10.1007/BF00181213zbMATH Open0722.51017OpenAlexW1984131483MaRDI QIDQ756131FDOQ756131

Authors: Lu Yang, Xiaorong Hou, Jingzhong Zhang 

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00181213

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zbMATH Keywords

unit circlek-sectionsregular n-gon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15)

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• Axiomatizing geometric constructions
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• A remark on the Beckman/Quarles theorem

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