Angles in a convex pentagon?

Jobst Heitzig heitzig at mbox.math.uni-hannover.de
Fri May 18 15:21:41 PDT 2001


Does anyone know whether the following is true in a convex pentagon ABCDE:
Given that EA>AB>BC and CD<DE<EA, the angle sum DEA+EAB is at most 4*pi/3.

I tried hard but could neither prove nor disprove it :-)

Jobst Heitzig



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