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On March 30, 1796, Gauss discovered that it was possible to construct a regular polygon with seventeen sides using a straightedge and compass. This was the first new construction of a regular polygon since the time of Euclid. The discovery, made when Gauss was only eighteen years old, persuaded him to make mathematics his career.

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