Can a regular heptagon be constructed using the flower of life or
Matatron's Cube?  Is there a 3 dimensional expersion of the hepatagon
and what is it called?  For example: the octahedron can be drawn two
dimensionally and still be "snapped" into view as a octahedron.

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 20 Dec 2004 09:43 PST

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A regular heptagon cannot be constructed with "ruler and compass"
operations while the Metatron's Cube (essentially, a hexagonal packing
of circles) can.

Construction of a regular heptagon "from" Metatron's Cube would
therefore introduce some "nonstandard" operation of some kind.  I'm
not sure what you might have in mind, nor am I familiar with the word
"expersion".  Perhaps "expression" is meant?

I'd be happy to post a link or two to sites that explain what regular
polygons can be constructed with ruler and compass; it's a problem
whose solution is usually attributed to Gauss.

regards, mathtalk-ga