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Plane Geometry - Bruce E. Shapiro

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SECTION 45. EUCLIDEAN CONSTRUCTIONS 261Figure 45.12: Construction of a square root (construction 45.12).c 2 = a, where c = BD and a = AB.Herewhere x is a non-negative integer and each p i is a Fermat number. 44 A Fermat number is a number of the form F n = 2 2n + 1 for some non-negative integer.The first five Fermat numbers are 3, 5, 17, 257, and 65,537, and 4,294,967,297.Revised: 18 Nov 2012 « CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

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