 To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line : it is required to divide it intotwo equal parts.  The new practical gager - Page 40by Matthew Iley - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...Afternoon Paper. REV. WN GRIFFIN, MA EUCLID. {Credit will be given for clearness of arrangement.] 1. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. 3. If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point, the rectangle contained by the whole line... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...(I. 8.) "Wherefore the angle BA C is bisected by the straight line AF. QEF PROPOSITION X. PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line. It is required to divide AB into two equal parts. Upon AB describe the equilateral... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...wherefore the given rectilineal angle BAC is bisected by the straight line AF. PROPOSITION X. PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line — that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Given, the straight line AB ; it is required to divide it into two equal parts. (Const.) Describe (I.... | |
 | Euclides - 1862 - 172 pages
...8.) Wherefore the given rectilineal angle BAC Is bIsected by the line AF. QE F PROP. X. — PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. (References — Prop. L 1, 4, 9.) Let AB be the given straight line. It is required to divide AB into... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Object-teaching - 1863 - 356 pages
...construction of tools and machines with which the pupil is familiar. Fig. 1. — To bisect a given straight line; that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line. From the centre A, with a radius* greater than the half of AB, describe two... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 262 pages
...EAF. (l. 8.) Wherefore the angle BA C is bisected by the straight line AF. QEP PROPOSITION X. PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line. It is required to divide AB into two equal parts. Upon AB describe the equilateral... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 448 pages
...EAF. (I. 8.) Wherefore the angle BA C is bisected by the straight line A FQEF PROPOSITION X. PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line. It is required to divide AB into two equal parts. Upon AB describe the equilateral... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 402 pages
...Wherefore the given rectilineal angle BAG is bisected toy the line AF. Q. 1C. F. PROP. X. — PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into twu equal parts. (References — Prop. L 1, 4, 9.) Let AB be the given straight line. It is required... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1865 - 528 pages
...EAF. (i. 8.) Wherefore the angle BACis bisected by the straight line AF. QEF PROPOSITION X. PROBLEM. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into twe equal parts. Let AB be the given straight line. It is required to divide AB into two equal parts.... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1855 - 350 pages
...given angle may be divided into four equal parts, into eight, into sixteen, and so OB. PROP. X. PROB. To bisect a given finite straight line, that is, to divide it into two equal part*. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two equal parts. Describe... | |
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