 | W.E. WORTHEN - 1857 - 600 pages
...or ten-sided polygon, may be formed from the pentagon by the bisection of the arcs in Prob. XXXVIIL, fig. 132. Inversely, an equilateral triangle may be...into a number of equal parts. To supply a means of dividing'the circumference into <wy number of parts, including cases not provided for in the foregoing... | |
 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Engineering - 1878 - 1064 pages
...stepping round the circumference with the Fig. s*.-Prob. XXXVIII. length AD, the polygon may be completed. The constructions for inscribing regular polygons...found of general utility. In this table the angle at TABLE OF POLYGONAL ANGLES. the centre is found by dividing 360°, the number of degrees in a circle,... | |
 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Engineering - 1878 - 1022 pages
...round the circumference with the Fig. 52.-Prob. XXXVIII. length AD, the polygon may be completed-. The constructions for inscribing regular polygons...polygons, expressed in degrees, will be found of general utib'ty. In this table the angle at TABLE OF POLYGONAL ANGLES. the centre is found by dividing 360°,... | |
 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Engineering - 1884 - 1024 pages
...round the circumference with the Fig. Sj.— Prob. XXXVIII. length AD, the polygon may be completed. The constructions for inscribing regular polygons...the circumference of a circle into a number of equal pans. To supply a means of dividing the circumference into any number of parts, including cases not... | |
 | Daniel Kinnear Clark - Engineering - 1889 - 1030 pages
...round the circumference with the Fig. 52.— Prob XXXVIII. length AD, the polygon may be completed. The constructions for inscribing regular polygons...found of general utility. In this table the angle at TABLE OF POLYGONAL ANGLES. the centre is found by dividing 360°, the number of degrees in a circle,... | |
 | William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1892 - 850 pages
...ten-sided polygon, may be formed from the pentagon by the bisection of the arcs in Prob. XXXV, Fig. 64. Inversely, an equilateral triangle may be inscribed...of general utility. In this table, the angle at the center is found by dividing 300°, the number of degrees in a circle, by the nnmber of sides in the... | |
 | William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1892 - 848 pages
...ten-sided polygon, may be formed from the pentagon by the bisection of the arcs in Prob. XXXV, Fig. 64. Inversely, an equilateral triangle may be inscribed...means of dividing the circumference into any number of part?, including cases not provided for in the foregoing problems, the annexed table of angles relating... | |
 | Measuring instruments - 1914 - 428 pages
...3.1429, which is fairly close to 3.1416. 59. Dividing Circle Into Equal Parts. — The usual way of dividing the circumference of a circle into a number of equal parts is to take a pair of dividers and step them around the circle, changing the amount of opening, until... | |
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XXXVIII. length AD, the polygon may be completed. The constructions for inscribing regular polygons in circles are suitable also for dividing the circumference of a circle into a number of equal parts. To supply a means of dividing the circumference into... 