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# 20 degrees is not constructible. We show quickly that $20\degree$ is not a constructible angle. If one can construct $20\degree$, then with the length 1, we can construct $\cos 20\degree$. However note the triple angle formula, $$ \cos 3x = 4 \cos^{3} x - 3 \cos x. $$If $3x = 60\degree$, $x = 20\degree$, then $u = \cos 20\degree$ is a solution to the polynomial equation $$ \frac{1}{2} = 4 u^{3} - 3u $$or equivalently a root of $$ 8 u^{3} - 6 u - 1 = 0 $$Note this polynomial is irreducible over $\mathbf{Q}$. Since if a cubic polynomial is reducible over $\mathbf{Q}$, then it must have a rational root. But by rational root test the only possible candidate of rational roots are $\pm 1 , \pm 1 / 2, \pm 1/ 4, \pm 1 / 8$, to which none of them are roots. However, recall that every constructible number must be a root of an irreducible polynomial of some degree $2^{m}$, some $m$. Whence $20 \degree$ is not constructible.