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compass and straightedge 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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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Ancient Greek mathematics Straightedge and compass constructions

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Euclidean geometry

Diophantus of Alexandria

Greek mathematics

neusis construction

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Euclidean geometry

Problem of Apollonius

doubling the cube

neusis construction

history of geometry

squaring the circle

Hippocrates of Chios

proof of impossibility

Huzita–Hatori axioms

constructible polygon

regular polygon

mathematics of paper folding

perpendicularity

constructible number

computational geometry