ircle only
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Divide a centre into quarters (Chenery's
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The problem of dividing a circle
into four is popularly known as "Napoleon's problem". Napoleon is known to have
introduced Mascheroni's compass work to French mathematicians, including
Lagrange and Laplace. Study the above construction, which shows an improvement
on Mascheroni's original method, created by Fitch Chenery in 1953, then see if
you can do it yourself:
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