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editDiameter of the circumscribed circle of a 11-sided Reuleaux polygon
editFor a Reuleaux triangle of width 1, the diameter of its circumscribed circle is approximately 1.15. (I don't have an analytical solution for this. I just drew it out and measured it.)
For an 11-sided Reuleaux polygon of width 1, what would the diameter of its circumscribed circle be?
(This is related to a question I asked on the Humanities reference desk[1]. Basically I'm trying approximate the size of the circumscribed circle of a Canadian Loonie, which happens to be an 11-sided Reuleaux polygon.) Helian James (talk) 04:56, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- What you want is the ratio of the diameter of a circle circumscribed about a regular 11-gon to its long diagonal. Or if you like, the ratio of the two longest diagonals in a regular 22-gon. This should be jacobolus (t) 05:21, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you!!!Helian James (talk) 05:26, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- So if the width of the loonie is indeed 26.5 mm, then the circumcircle would have diameter a bit under 26.8 mm. –jacobolus (t) 05:28, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you!!!Helian James (talk) 05:26, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
P-recursive equation definition
editI don't really understand the definition of P-recursive equation. It states that it is a linear equation but the coefficients are polynomials (or specially, sequences that are representable by polynomials)? How would that work? AltoStev (talk) 17:27, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- A standard linear recurrence relation would look like , where are constants. In a p-recursive recurrence relation, are instead polynomials in . That's it.--2600:4040:7B33:6E00:5DB1:E81C:2118:36DD (talk) 18:18, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- Do you have any idea why the article does not use subscripts for the sequence? And are there uses in which is not a polynomial? The presentation
- seems easier to grasp. One or two examples to illustrate the definition wouldn't be misplaced. --Lambiam 00:04, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- I'd never seen P-recursive equations before clicking on the link in the OP, so I can't answer these questions.--2600:4040:7B33:6E00:B123:9399:E930:26DA (talk) 00:30, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- After looking at definitions in the literature, instead of defining "P-recursive equations", most define the notion of a "P-recursive sequence" as one obeying a homogeneous P-recursive relation, using subscripts for the sequence elements (e.g. here, where it is also stated that the nonhomogeneous case can be transformed into a homogeneous one, which I think assumes a polynomial rhs). This source, also using subscript notation, first defines the notion of a "P-recursive" recurrence relation, allowing a non-zero rhs of the equation, but requires it to be a polynomial. --Lambiam 09:29, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Do you have any idea why the article does not use subscripts for the sequence? And are there uses in which is not a polynomial? The presentation