17-gon

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Had Karl Friedrich Gauss not been turned from an intended career in philology by his discovery of the geometrical constructability of the regular 17-gon and related implications for number theory The difference ΔI in entropy information between 756 pairs of otherwise acceptable alternative words in the two manuscripts on which Lachmann based his reconstruction of Lucretius's

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Mathematicians discussing the properties of polygons with large numbers of sides will often use the formulation n-gon, where n is replaced by the number of sides (ie, a 17-gon or a

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008