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Geometry Level 4

There is a regular n n -sided polygon A 0 A 1 A 2 . . . A n 1 A_0 A_1 A_2 ... A_{n-1} for which the following equation holds:

1 A 0 A 1 = 1 A 0 A 2 + 1 A 0 A 4 + 1 A 0 A 8 + 1 A 0 A 15 \frac{1}{A_{0}A_{1}}=\frac{1}{A_{0}A_{2}}+\frac{1}{A_{0}A_{4}}\ +\ \frac{1}{A_{0}A_{8}}+\frac{1}{A_{0}A_{15}}

Find the value of n n given that it is greater than 16 16 .

Note :
The notation A i A j A_{i}A_{j} indicates the distance between the i t h i^{th} and the j t h j^{th} vertices.


The answer is 31.

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Shivprateek Das
May 25, 2020

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