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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 504

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oceeding Eliminating x from equations (84) and from the line DG, and adding point to (85) the required side-equation results. point, we have for the first four side- Now equation (84) is easily put in the equations the quadrilaterals form /-. < /T^-rN/-. x 1 Sm- CAD HGDE, HGEF, HEFC, CEFB. Cot. EDG… … 9.3290804 pute directly any specified side of this Hence from Zech's Tables* it follows pentagon from another side through tri- at once that angles only. A little artifice, however, log. cot. (EDG + .r) = 9.2441624n will enable us to do this. Suppose the line CD drawn. Call the angle GDC=z and EDG…

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