Prof. Sally Keely · @InteGreat
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A regular decagon, hexagon, and pentagon, each circumscribed by congruent circles form a right triangle that is half a (half a ). Exquisite! Sketch with circles can be found by Clifford Pickover at twitter.com/pickover/status/16. John Cook noted, "When I first saw the illustration in Panoply of Pentagons (below) I thought that the top of the pentagon was parallel to the top of the hexagon. When I wrote the Python code first assuming this orientation of the pentagon, things didn’t line up. Writing the code made me pay closer attention, as is often the case." at johndcook.com/blog/2023/04/14/ code reveals!

#euclid #geometry #python #goldenrectangle #goldentriangle

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