Find all positive integers such that one can choose non-intersecting diagonals of a regular -gon that divide the -gon into triangles in such a way that every chosen diagonal is a side of minimal length in some triangle.
Solution
Let be the triangle containing the center of the -gon (colored in Fig. 23; if the center lies on a diagonal then choose either of the triangles having this diagonal as a side). Let be any side of . If is a diagonal of the -gon then separates from a neighboring triangle whose other two sides are shorter than . By assumption, has to be a side of minimal length in . But if is a side of the -gon then is also a side of minimal length in . Thus all
sides of are equally minimal, meaning that is equilateral. Consequently, there is a constant number of sides of -gon between the endpoints of every side of . Hence for a positive integer .

Fig. 23
Consider now an arbitrary triangle neighboring . Let be any of its two sides not common with . If is a diagonal of the -gon then separates from a third triangle whose other sides are shorter than . Thus must be a side of minimal length in . But if is a side of the -gon then is also a side of minimal length in . Hence the sides of not common with have equal length and there must be the same number of sides of the -gon between the endpoints of these sides of . Consequently where is a positive integer.
If the sides of equal length of are sides of the -gon then and . Otherwise we can continue similarly to get where either or , etc. Thus for a natural number . A construction for every of the form follows from the argumentation.