how do you tri-sect an angle with a compass and a straight edge?

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how do you tri-sect an angle with a compass and a straight edge?

using a pencil, draw an angle. tri-sect the angle using compass and a straight edge.

2006-09-15 06:24:04 · 3 answers · asked by donduck511 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics

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In general you can not always trisect an angle. These webpage says that you can trisect certain angles, but you cannot trisect them all. (The problem of trisecting angles was one that the Greeks could not solve.)

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Trisecting_an_angle.html

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/trisect.HTM

2006-09-15 06:29:34 · answer #1 · answered by raz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋

It has been tried for a thousand years. If you find a way to do this, you'll be famous.

2006-09-15 13:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

it's impossible.... nice try!

2006-09-15 14:01:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋