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compass and straightedge construction
Sign in to saveAlso 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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- Subclass of
- geometric construction
- Image
- Regular Hexagon Inscribed in a Circle 240px.gif
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- topic's main category
- Category:Compass and straightedge constructions
- Commons category
- Ruler-and-compass construction
- uses
- straightedge
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
Creating a regular hexagon with a straightedge and compass
Three-dimensional
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “compass and straightedge construction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.