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You Can’t Cut Two Pancakes With Compass and Straightedge | Synapse

February 29, 2024

You Can’t Cut Two Pancakes With Compass and Straightedge

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We provide a concrete example of two constructible polygons in the plane whose common area bisecting line is not constructible.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/68e76e6eb6db6435876e46b7 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570x.2024.2312792

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