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Plane Geometry - Bruce E. Shapiro

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SECTION 45. EUCLIDEAN CONSTRUCTIONS 255Figure 45.4: Illustration of construction 45.3. Ray −→ AG bisects angle ∠BAC.Figure 45.5: Construction 45.4. Line ←→ QP passes through A and is perpendicularto l.and a point P that is outside γ, construct a line through P that is tangentto γ.1. Let γ = C(O, r) and let P be any point oustide γ.2. Draw the line segment OP .3. Find the midpoint M of OP .4. Draw the circle δ = C(M, OM).5. Let Q and R be the two points where the two circles intersect. Lines←→P R and ←→ P Q are both tangent to γ.Constructible NumbersGiven a segment of length 1, we can ask the question of which other segmentswe can construct. For example, we know that by duplicating theRevised: 18 Nov 2012 « CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

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