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From: strgh@warwick.ac.uk (J E H Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: More on tri vs. bi
Keywords: mathematics
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Date: 10 Jul 89 08:35:48 GMT
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In article <14266@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> mjm@dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen) writes:
>... using only a straightedge and compass!  Well, certain angles can
>certainly be trisected by this method (60 degrees, for instance), but there
>are many angles that cannot. ...
>
Nitpick: note that 60 degrees is one of the (many!) angles that certainly
cannot be trisected using compass and straight-edge; see, for example,
`Topics in Algebra' by I.N.Herstein.