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tri-sected angle explained...
If you begin with the tools, you can not get there. But if you reproduce the angle itself, and set the angle three times in itself, it has to tri-sect the angle. That's absolute, the question isn't whether reproducing the angle 3 times and setting it within itself tri-sects - that absolutely tri-sects - the question is; did you reproduce the angle 3 times and did you set the 3 angles within itself?
Now, remember, we are talking about the angle, not the hypotenuse.
from my blog: (posted 10 years ago)
I still have this drawing somewhere in a desk drawer. This image was made with my wife's old cannon scanner, long since trashed, cuz the technology gets old. But I still have the pencil on paper... can you see where the angle is reproduced 3 times within itself? If you look for bi-section, you will think you are seeing bi-section, but it isn't there, the key is to look for the reproduction of the angle itself and the setting of that angle within itself 3 times; think angle, what is the angle? The angle is the arc produced by the compass intersecting the 2 straight lines that created the original angle; think of that arc, look for the reproduction of that arc 3 times... can you see it?
If you begin with the tools, you can not get there. But if you reproduce the angle itself, and set the angle three times in itself, it has to tri-sect the angle. That's absolute, the question isn't whether reproducing the angle 3 times and setting it within itself tri-sects - that absolutely tri-sects - the question is; did you reproduce the angle 3 times and did you set the 3 angles within itself?
Now, remember, we are talking about the angle, not the hypotenuse.
from my blog: (posted 10 years ago)
I still have this drawing somewhere in a desk drawer. This image was made with my wife's old cannon scanner, long since trashed, cuz the technology gets old. But I still have the pencil on paper... can you see where the angle is reproduced 3 times within itself? If you look for bi-section, you will think you are seeing bi-section, but it isn't there, the key is to look for the reproduction of the angle itself and the setting of that angle within itself 3 times; think angle, what is the angle? The angle is the arc produced by the compass intersecting the 2 straight lines that created the original angle; think of that arc, look for the reproduction of that arc 3 times... can you see it?