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compass and straightedge construction

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compass and straightedge construction

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Also known as compass and straightedge constructions, ruler-and-compass construction, classical construction

way of drawing geometric objects using only an idealized compass and straightedge

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Creating a regular hexagon with a straightedge and compass

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “compass and straightedge construction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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