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How To Find The Circumference Of Any Diameter |
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This section is from the book "The English And American Mechanic", by B. Frank Van Cleve. Also available from Amazon: The English And American Mechanic.
Fig. 1.
From the centre C describe a circle A B, haying the required diameter ; then place the corner of the square at the centre 0, and draw the lines C D and C E ; then draw the chord D E: three times the diameter added to the distance from the middle of the chord D F E to the middle of the subtending arc D G E, will be the circumference sought.
 
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