Alan isn’t fixing the diameter, but the perimeter. For that case it’s easy to see why the regular N-gon has the maximum area. -Veit
On Sep 21, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
I went looking for this. here's a picture of the two hexagons from Graham's paper
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thane/29893161697/in/dateposted-public/
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:45 PM Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> wrote:
an area exceeding that of a regular *hexagon* of unit diameter by about 4
This was shocking to me, absolutely shocking, until I realized somehow Neil omitted an important character.
It should be "by about 4%".
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