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Rational Equiangular Polygons
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA
- 1 Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA
- 2 Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA
Applied Mathematics·Volume 04 (2013)·Pages 1460–1465·Published 25 September 2013·DOI10.4236/am.2013.410197
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Abstract
The main purpose of this note is to investigate equiangular polygons with rational edges. When the number of edges is the power of a prime, we determine simple, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such polygons. As special cases of our investigations, we settle two conjectures involving arithmetic polygons.
KeywordsEquiangular PolygonArithmetic Polygon
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