Re: Chiming in (was Re: Evolving shades of meaning (was Re: LUNATIC again))

laokou@III.ORG.TW,Internet Gateway writes:
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>Simple question that this thread has raised for me: Some quick math
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>shows that 7 and 11 into 360 produce repeating decimals. Does this mean
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>there's no such thing as an equilateral heptagon or (whatever the word
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>for an eleven-sided object is - undecagon?)? Or if there are, how does
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>that work? Seven equal angles of    ______
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>                                 51.428571 degrees?
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>Heading back to the tenth grade
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>I am,
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>Kou
As a bona fide tenth grader, I'll answer this.
You needn't think of everything in decimals. Each angle the equilaterial
heptagon is 360/7 (or 50 and 10/7, more intelligibly). It's not a nice looking
decimal, but that doesn't matter.

ever green
sam