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PLAYFUL MATH BLOG CARNIVAL #163
BLOG CARNIVAL #163....LET'S GO! Fun fact: The number 163 is prime, which we can prove simply by showing that it is not divisible by 2, 3...
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BLOG CARNIVAL #163....LET'S GO! Fun fact: The number 163 is prime, which we can prove simply by showing that it is not divisible by 2, 3...
Why not a rhombus, with increasingly acute angles for increasingly smaller area?
ReplyDeleteYes, that would produce a 12-perimeter polygon with a tiny area (approaching 0). But in this problem we are restricted to integers only.
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