decagon

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Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular .

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

If then the bisected chord be a side of the decagon, and if the radius be still 1280, the double of the lesser segment exceeds 125.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

To inscribe a regular decagon in a given circle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This side being known the decagon can be constructed, and if the vertices are joined alternately, leaving out half their number, we obtain the regular pentagon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

The purpose of this problem is to prepare for the construction of the regular decagon and pentagon.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene