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Compass Constructions: How to Draw a Circle

January 10, 2018Original blog post

Drawing a circle with a compass: place it, rotate, it slips, ugh, then trace a mug.

Transcript

Draw a circle: "1. place compass on page" "2. rotate" "3. oh no, it's slipping" "4. ugh" "5. trace a mug or something" [photo of a mug and a Sharpie]

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-10-compass-constructions-made-easy--compass-constructions-how-to-draw-a-circle/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Geometry › Compass & StraightedgeGeometry › Circles
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