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You Can’t Cut Two Pancakes With Compass and Straightedge

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Pages 151-159 | Received 13 Oct 2021, Accepted 03 Feb 2022, Published online: 29 Feb 2024
 

Summary

We provide a concrete example of two constructible polygons in the plane whose common area bisecting line is not constructible.

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Acknowledgment

We thank the referee for his/her careful reading, great insight, and suggestions for improvement.

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Notes on contributors

Allan Berele

Allan Berele (MR Author ID: 35020) received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is a professor at DePaul University in Chicago. His main research interest is in algebras with polynomial identities, although he fell in love with Euclidean geometry many years before he ever heard of p. i. algebras.

Stefan Catoiu

Stefan Catoiu (MR Author ID: 632038) received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an associate professor at DePaul University in Chicago. His research interests includes non-commutative algebra, real analysis, geometry, number theory and elementary mathematics.

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