30 Jul
2016
30 Jul
'16
10:05 a.m.
If you mean construct-with-compass-and-straightedge, see for instance http://planetmath.org/compassandstraightedgeconstructionofgeometricmean Jim Propp On Saturday, July 30, 2016, Zak Seidov <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Square-to-Rectangle construction problem is trivial. But what about Rectangle-to-Square construction problem? There are some trivial cases, e.g., if a<b are side lengths such that a*b is a square: (a,b)=(6, 24), (a,b)=(6, 54), etc. But what about general case of any rectangle? zak
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