mrios@ihlpg.UUCP (Michael Rios) (11/15/86)
> >Joseph McLean writes: > >> A pentagon can't be inscribed in a square ? Absurd.Whoever said that > >> all 5 corners of the pentagon need to touch the square ? > >My definition of "inscribe", from Webster's, states that all vertices > >of the inscribed polygon must touch a boundary of the polygon in > >which it is inscribed. > > > >Rick > jml. These people (and many others through the mails) have griped as to my original problem of "inscribing" a pentagon inside of a square. I feel I must set this straight, before this group goes down in a mass of flames and definitions. :-) What I meant when I posted this puzzle/query was to determine the largest regular pentagon that would fit within a given square. If the word "inscribe" was too rigid a definition for this, then I and my semantics will apologize. I'll watch it from now on. Really, I will. -- Michael Rios ihnp4!ihlpg!mrios "You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you." -Walter Joseph Kovacs, _Watchmen_