The spectacular, soaring spire of the Man in the Community pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal consisted of a sequence of nested hexagons (video tour of pavilion).
The sequence of inscribed hexagons suggests a variety of math problems. What is the ratio of the areas of the circumscribed regular hexagon to the inscribed regular hexagon? Solution.
Photo by I. Peterson
2 comments:
your posts make my days more beautiful :) thanks!
My friend Jayaraman Narayanan says: "the answer can be given for regular polygon of any number of sides".
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