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Circle in a Prism (Posted on 2012-06-30)

Given a regular right hexagonal prism of edge length 1, what is the largest circle (in terms of area) that can be placed completely inside the prism?

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What is the largest circle (in terms of n) that can be placed completely inside a regular right unit n-prism?

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Subject	Author	Date
n=3 and n=large	Jer	2012-07-01 14:27:19
n=4 (the easy one)	Jer	2012-07-01 00:29:51

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