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I need a formula for segmenting a circle
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Morris Dovey
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Burt (in
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| I can't remember the formula for the life of me.
| If a dish is almost 3 ft across and I want to segment it like an
| orange into 10 segments how do I calculate how wide each will be at
| the rim?
| So I end up with a dish that has 10 sides.
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| I'm math clueless.
Burt...
Each of the sides will be 36" * sin(360 degrees / 10) or approximately
21.16"
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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html
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