MHB Euler-pi Discovery: AMS News Item #3

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Quite interesting discovery reported by American Mathemetical Society:
http://www.AMS.com/news-items/pi-e-discovery/0104af.html

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Bacterius said:
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April's fool!
 
Seemingly by some mathematical coincidence, a hexagon of sides 2,2,7,7, 11, and 11 can be inscribed in a circle of radius 7. The other day I saw a math problem on line, which they said came from a Polish Olympiad, where you compute the length x of the 3rd side which is the same as the radius, so that the sides of length 2,x, and 11 are inscribed on the arc of a semi-circle. The law of cosines applied twice gives the answer for x of exactly 7, but the arithmetic is so complex that the...
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