Re: Geometric construction of the product of two numbers
- From: "G. A. Edgar" <edgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:28:56 -0500
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<37a1e0ef-be8c-4cb7-a470-5ccaae89a250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can anyone point me to a web reference giving the
construction of a segment of length ab from segments of
lengths a and b?
As the others said, you also need 1.
Then 1:a::b:ab lets you construct any one of these lengths from the
other three.
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G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/
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