Irish Snap

Irish Snap is a multiplayer card game using the standard deck of 52 playing cards where each player takes turns laying down one face up card each while counting.  I.e. the first person says “ace” while laying down the first card; then the second person says “two” while laying down the next card.  This process is repeated until the card that has just been laid down matches the number the person just called.  When such a match happens, all players race to slap a hand on top of the pile of cards, and the slowest person has to take the pile into their hand.  The first person to empty their hand wins.

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Cross Sections of Polyhedra

Cutting three dimensional shapes and looking at the possible shapes of the cross section.

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Polygons in Polygrams

Each regular polygram has a regular polygon at its center.

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Halfing 3D Shapes

Cutting 3D shapes parallel to the base such that the top and bottom resulting portions have the same volume.

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Apothem of a Regular Polygon

Is this method of constructing a regular polygon an approximation? or theoretically accurate?

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