 | John Farrar - Logarithms - 1822 - 244 pages
...circle. Let it be proposed, for example, to inscribe la a given circle a regular polygon of S gides. Open the sector till the transverse distance between...of a regular inscribed pentagon. Of Gunter's Scale. GUNTEH'S scale, commonly of two feet in length, contains on one side the lines of the plane scale,... | |
 | John Farrar - Trigonometry - 1833 - 274 pages
...centres, the secants of these same distances. The line of polygons is a line of chords of {, ], |, &c., part of 360°. It is used to inscribe a regular...described, and on the other corresponding logarithmic lines t. The line of numbers marked Num. or N., on which most of the others depend, is constructed... | |
 | John Farrar - Trigonometry - 1833 - 276 pages
...example, if the required figure be a pentagon, be equal to this extent; then the distance between 6 and C will be the radius of a circle, in which the given...described, and on the other corresponding logarithmic lines t. The line of numbers marked Num. or N., on which most of the others depend, is constructed... | |
 | John Farrar - Logarithms - 1840 - 270 pages
...the compasses, and open the sector till the transverse distance between 5 and 5, for example, if ths required figure be a pentagon, be equal, to this extent;...of a regular inscribed pentagon. Of Gunter's Scale. GUNTER'S scale, commonly of two feet in length, contains on one side the lines of the plane scale,... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1845 - 184 pages
...consist ; as for a pentagon between 5 and 5 ; or for an octagon between 8 and 8 ; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. The line... | |
 | John Fry Heather - 1849 - 202 pages
...consist ; as for a pentagon between 5 and 5 ; or for an octagon between 8 and 8 ; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. The line... | |
 | Lucius D. Gould - Carpentry - 1853 - 234 pages
...consist; as for a pentagon between 5 and 5 ; or for an octagon between 8 and 8 ; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. The line... | |
 | W.E. WORTHEN - 1857 - 600 pages
...consist, as for a pentagon between 5 and 5, or for an octagon between 8 and 8; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle, whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. the compasses,... | |
 | Lucius D. Gould - 1857 - 464 pages
...consist ; as for a pentagon between 5 and 5 ; or for an octagon between 8 and 8 ; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. The line... | |
 | William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1857 - 650 pages
...consist, as for a pentagon between 5 and 5, or for an octagon between 8 and 8 ; then the transverse distance between 6 and 6 will be the radius of a circle, whose circumference would be divided by the given line into the number of sides required. All regular... | |
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... polygon, upon a given right line, set off the extent of the given line, as a transverse distance between the points upon the line of polygons, answering to the number of sides of which the polygon is to consist ; as for a pentagon between 5 and 5... 
