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From: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: pentagons in squares
Message-ID: <305@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 05:10:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  5 05:10:52 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Nov-86 22:03:45 EST
Reply-To: jml@cs.strath.ac.uk (Joseph McLean)
Organization: Department of Computer Science at Strathclyde University, UK.
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A pentagon can't be inscribed in a square ? Absurd.Whoever said that
all 5 corners of the pentagon need to touch the square ? The pentagon
can be made as small as necessary to fit inside the square so that
we know that a pentagon can be inscribed.The object is then to find
the largest such.See postings by Dave desJardins and myself in
net.math.

  jml.