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回复:The maximum is n-3 reflex angles

好吃客 2010-07-21 06:20:14 ( reads)

Thanks a lot! I thought along the same line too, but has great difficulty to visualize such a polygon. For example, for a 8-sided polygon, it's easy to draw it as 1 concave angle, 1 convex angle subsequently. Where can the 5th concave angle be?

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guest007

2010-07-21 06:38:26

回复:回复:The maximum is n-3 reflex angles

外-国人

2010-07-21 11:28:30

A key corollary to (2) is that

ElizabethTaylor

2010-07-21 15:09:34

Here's an easy way to visualize it

好吃客

2010-07-21 19:31:38

Sorry maybe this is a mental block, but...

ElizabethTaylor

2010-07-22 05:16:37

No, that's not necessarily the case

好吃客

2010-07-22 07:10:41

Got it ! hanks a bunch!