Ji Vanconey
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Need help more Fermat Numbers?
Gauss (1796) discovered that a regular polygon with p sides, where p is a prime, can be constructed with ruler and comp if and only if p - 1 is a power of 2. Show that this condition is equivalent to requiring that p be a Fermat prime.
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