 AB of the circle into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With the points A and B as centers and radius AB, describe arcs cutting each other at C.  Observational Geometry - Page 160by William Taylor Campbell - 1899 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
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...inscribe a polygon of five sides within a given circle. Draw a diameter, AB, and divide it by Problem XIII into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides, — in this case five. With A and B as centers, and radius AB, describe arcs intersecting in 5. From... | |
 | School of Railway Signaling (Utica, N.Y.) - Railroads - 1910 - 446 pages
...Prolong AB toward C and with A as a center and a radius equal to AB, describe a semicircle and divide it into as many equal parts -as -the polygon is to have sides. This operation may be performed by the method given in Art. 148, by completing the circle and dividing... | |
 | Calvin Franklin Swingle - Steam engineering - 1913 - 1270 pages
...radial. To inscribe any regular polygon in a circle—Fig. 66. Divide the diameter AB of the circle into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With the points A and B as centers and radius AH. describe arcs cutting each other at 0. Draw the line CE through... | |
 | John Simpson Reid - Mechanical drawing - 1919 - 254 pages
...Number of Sides given the Circumscribing Circle. Draw a diameter AB of the given circle. Divide AB into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides, say 5. From A and B with the line AB as radius describe arcs cutting in C, draw a line from C through... | |
 | William Kent - Mechanical engineering - 1923 - 1450 pages
...Divide EF into four equal pal and set off three parts equal to those from F to C. Divide the díame AB into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides; and fron draw CD, through the second point of division, cutting the circle at Then AD is equal to one... | |
 | Charles William Weick - Geometrical drawing - 1925 - 276 pages
...as a center and CA as a radius draw arc AF , intersecting DB produced at E. Divide the diameter AC into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. Draw a line from E FIG. 131. — Regular polygon in a circle of given diameter. through the point 2,... | |
 | Frank Roy Kepler - Mechanical drawing - 1928 - 132 pages
...any number of sides (in this case seven), within a given circle.—Draw a diameter AB, and divide it into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With A and B as centers and radius AB, describe arcs intersecting at F. From F, draw a straight line through... | |
 | Asher Benjamin - Architecture - 1988 - 190 pages
...two arcs in tersecting each other at f; from b draw the perpendicular bc, and divide the arc а с into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. Through the second division d draw bg ; make ef equal tof d, and through e draw ag, meeting bg at g... | |
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