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Plane Geometry


That portion of geometry dealing with figures in a plane, as opposed to solid geometry. Plane geometry deals with the circle, line, polygon, etc.


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Constructible Polygon, Geometric Construction, Geometry, Solid Geometry, Spherical Geometry Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroom

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