A regular heptagon is a regular polygon with seven sides. Its unit-circle vertices have complex coordinates for . It cannot be constructed from a unit segment by a straightedge and compass construction: the first coordinate has degree three over , since the seventh cyclotomic field has degree six and degree two over its real subfield. Every finite constructible coordinate extension has power-of-two degree, which cannot contain a degree-three subextension by the tower law.
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