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PROBLEM STATEMENT
Describe in pictures or words the elements of D[5]: the symmetries of a regular-pentagon.

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Consider picture of pentagon (pretend it’s regular):

212\* MERGEFORMAT [.]

Clearly: as with triangle: symmetries are flips and rotations. As before:

FVBi  [pancake flip about axis bisecting ith pentagon vertex] i  1, 2,3, 4,5 313\*
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R(360/5)i   clockwise-rotation by [( 360
5 )  i ] degrees, i = 1,2,3,4,5
414\*
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The Cayley-table for these symmetry-transformations has to be really big for this, and probably a repetition of
that for the triangle in a lot of respects.

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