A Conversation for Fermat Numbers
Applications to construction geometry
Catenary Started conversation Apr 17, 2003
You might want to add as a property of Fermat primes that Gauss proved that the only odd-sided polygons which can be constructed with ruler and compasss are those which are the products of Fermat primes. It's a nice story and would relate the article to geometry. 
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