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Adventitious quadrangles: a geometrical approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

J. F. Rigby
J. F. Rigby*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University College, P.O. Box 78, Cardiff CF11XL
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A quadrangle has four vertices, of which no three are collinear, and six sides joining the vertices in pairs. If the angle between each pair of the six sides is an integral multiple of π/n radians, n being an integer, the quadrangle is said to be n-adventitious [1]. A quadrangle is adventitious if it is n- adventitious for some n. For example, the quadrangle BCDE in Fig. 1 (the original adventitious quadrangle from which all the discussion started in [1]) is 18-adventitious. Various problems are posed in [1]; in a suitably generalised form these problems can be summarised as: find all adventitious quadrangles and prove their existence by elementary geometry.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 62 , Issue 421 , October 1978 , pp. 183 - 191
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1978

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