Making a Strip of Isosceles Trapezoids

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Suppose the angle measures
. The line
bisects
, so
. The line
bisects
, so triangle
is isosceles and
is congruent to
, which measures
. Then
and
. So the angles
converge to
. In this way the trapezoids
converge to an isosceles trapezoid congruent to the trapezoid consisting of three sides and of a diagonal of a regular pentagon. Isosceles trapezoids are obtained immediately when
. Otherwise, the isosceles condition is approached as the number of repeats,
. Visually, however, the result appears to be satisfied with
. Use the bottom scroll bar to view extended regions of the diagram.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2016)
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Reference
[1] P. Hilton and J. Pedersen, Build Your Own Polyhedra, Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1994, pp. 18–23.
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Published: January 15 2016