Minimum area of a regular $n$-gon containing a bounded $C^1$ curve

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Imagine a ${C^1}$ curve $\gamma:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ and given $n\in \mathbb{N}$. Is there a way of finding the area of the regular n-gon where the area of this bounding n-gon is minimised ?