Given a unit segment, construct one of length $4+\sqrt{3}$, and one of length $7+\sqrt{4+\sqrt{3}}$

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  • Given a unit segment, construct a segment for the number $4 + \sqrt3$.

  • Given a unit segment, construct a segment for the number $7 + \sqrt{4 + \sqrt3}$.

I get how to use a unit segment and create a segment $\sqrt2$ and then use another unit segment at a right angle and get a segment $\sqrt3$. Then do I just tack on $4$ unit lengths to that line to construct a long segment that is $4 + \sqrt3$? And then it seems the next part builds on the last, but I’m not sure how.

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From the segment $4+\sqrt 3$ build a rectangle having height $1$ so its area is $4+\sqrt 3$

Now we build an equivalent square, so its side will be $\sqrt{4+\sqrt 3}$

With center in the midpoint $M$ of the segment $AB$ build a circle and the perpendicular to $AB$ in the point $H$. The intersection $C$ is the vertex of a triangle were

$CH^2=AH\cdot HB\to CH =\sqrt{4+\sqrt 3}$

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