Albrecht Dürer's Pentagon of 1525
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This Demonstration shows a pentagon constructed using a straight edge and compass given the length 
of one side. The construction uses five circles, each with radius 
. All five sides are equal but the pentagon is not regular.
Contributed by: Ralph Leon (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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For more information, see A. Dürer, Approximate Construction of Regular Pentagon, cut-the-knot.org.
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"Albrecht Dürer's Pentagon of 1525"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AlbrechtDurersPentagonOf1525/
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Published: March 7 2011
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