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In this chapter we carry the paper-folding procedures and the mathematics of paper-folding further than we did in [2]. However, in order to make this account as self-contained as possible, we will recall, in Section 2, the systematic folding procedures from Chapter 4 of [2] that enabled us to approximate, to any degree of accuracy desired, any regular convex N-gon.1
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Hilton, P., Holton, D., Pedersen, J. (2002). Paper-Folding, Polyhedra-Building, and Number Theory. In: Mathematical Vistas. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3681-6_4
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