Figure 3: Measurement of the Circle, Prop.

3: a portion of the circumscribed

polygons. Then20 OA : AC [ = 3 : 1] > 265 : 153 (1) and OC : CA [ = 2 : 1] = 306 :
153. (2) First, draw OD bisecting the angle AOC and meeting AC in D. 21 Now [by
Elements VI.322] CO : OA = CD : DA easy to express in similar terms. 20Beginning
here and throughout the rest of this text are displayed a number of equations and
inequalities involving the ratios with which Archimedes is working. It is necessary to
emphasize that this is is to make Archimedes proof intelligible to a modern reader
without undue effort and not because Archimedes would have written his
mathematics in this way. The use of signs like +, , and even = and