Keep an eye on alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking your quick formula will =
show up there as soon as I have it written.

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PDQ

"Burt" wrote in message =
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| On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:20:38 -0500, Duane Bozarth =

| wrote:
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| Burt wrote:
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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.
|
| perimeter =3D pi * diameter =3D 3.1415926 * 3 =3D 9.42478 ft
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| Or, just measure around and divide by 10...
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| Thanks. I can't measure around because it ain't made yet.g
| I need to cut ten pieces of steel to form a ten sided form that will =
fit exactly
| inside a 3 foot circle. I need the distance between the points as a =
straight
| line. so if it section is shaped like a bow I need the length of the =
string.
| Does this make any sense?