Gauss had given a geometric method for construction of a regular polygon of n=17 sides.
Was it the next easiest in the order of difficulty for construction after 5 sided polygon the pentagon? Why were polygons n = 7,11,13 dropped out?
Regular polygons construction
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1Have you read about the relationship (that Gauss found) between constructibility and Fermat primes? You can google Gauss-Wantzel. – 2017-01-14
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2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_polygon – 2017-01-14
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0No, can you please re-state it or give a link? – 2017-01-14