HMMT 2002 U63
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Our third and final item comes to us from Germany, I mean Geometry. It is known that a regular -gon can be constructed with straightedge and compass if is a prime that is 1 plus a power of 2 . It is also possible to construct a -gon whenever an -gon is constructible, or a -gon where the 's are distinct primes of the above form. What is really interesting is that these conditions, together with the fact that we can construct a square, is that they give us all constructible regular -gons. What is the largest less than such that a regular -gon is constructible?
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