A Construction of the Square Root of Seven
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This Demonstration shows a construction of and
such that
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Contributed by: Marko Razpet and Izidor Hafner (June 2018)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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The ratio appears in Pappus's hexagons problem.
References
[1] T. Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II: From Aristarchus to Diophantus, New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
[2] A. Ostermann and G. Wanner, Geometry by Its History, New York: Springer, 2012.
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