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Re: Angles without a protractor
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2012 Oct 12, 08:42 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2012 Oct 12, 08:42 -0700
Sean,
If +/- 1 degree is good enough then working with a ten degree chord on an arc should get the job done up to 40 degrees. Visual interpolation will get the single degrees.
To figure the 10 degree chord just multiply .17 by the radius.
Greg Rudzinski
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