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    end the use of neusis was deemed acceptable only when the two other, higher categories of constructions did not offer a solution. Neusis became a kind...
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    angle by using tools other than straightedge and compass. For example, neusis construction, also known to ancient Greeks, involves simultaneous sliding...
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    icositrigon has the distinction of being the smallest regular polygon that is not neusis constructible. A regular icositrigon is represented by Schläfli symbol {23}...
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    regular polygon with this property. This type of construction is called a neusis construction. It is also constructible with compass, straightedge and angle...
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    held against a straightedge might seem to be equivalent to marking it, the neusis construction is still impermissible and this is what unmarked really means:...
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    that produce very close approximations. It can be also constructed using neusis, or by allowing the use of an angle trisector. The regular enneagon has...
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  • constructible with compass and straightedge. However, it can be constructed using a neusis construction. octagon 8 nonagon (or enneagon) 9 "Nonagon" mixes Latin [novem...
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    straightedge. However, it is constructible using neusis, or an angle trisector. The following is an animation from a neusis construction of a regular tridecagon with...
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    placing the constructed tomahawk into the required position is a form of neusis that is not allowed in compass and straightedge constructions. The inventor...
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    the western world - even considered paper folding. The term neusis (singular) or neusis construction may also refer to a specific tool or method employed...
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