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

Douglas Koller wrote:
> Simple question that this thread has raised for me: Some quick math
> shows that 7 and 11 into 360 produce repeating decimals. Does this mean
> there's no such thing as an equilateral heptagon or (whatever the word
> for an eleven-sided object is - undecagon?)? Or if there are, how does
> that work? Seven equal angles of    ______
>                                  51.428571 degrees?
There's no problem with repeating decimals, that's only because we
happen to use 360 degrees.  If we divided a circle into, say, 77
degrees, then there'd be no problem.

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