KnowraStraightedge and compass constructionLinked fromLinked fromThe 34 pages that link to Straightedge and compass construction, each with the reason it gives.All 34Broader topic 1Related 25Narrower topic 7Compared with 1Transcendental numberNarrower topic: Constructible lengths are algebraic, sharply limiting which constants such constructions can produce.Doubling the cubeNarrower topic: The classical problem restricts permissible operations to these tools.Squaring the circleNarrower topic: These are the only tools allowed in the classical challenge.Gauss–Wantzel theoremNarrower topic: The theorem answers exactly which regular polygons this classical method can construct.MenaechmusNarrower topic: The classical restriction frames the problem Menaechmus addressed, though his conic method exceeds it.Poncelet–Steiner theoremNarrower topic: The theorem's claim concerns reproducing this entire class of constructions.Mohr–Mascheroni theoremNarrower topic: The theorem asserts that every point constructible by this method is also compass-constructible.