Secondly, let OF bisoot the angle AOD, meeting AD in E, [then D0: 04= DE: BA, poop so) = 26 ER SEM tht DO+04: DA=04: Az} re ‘Therefore 04: SOL 158, proses MEASUREMENT OF A CIRCLE, 95 Ut follows that OB* ; HA > (11694) +153") : 153" (hs OR: BA> 117995158... Thirdly, ot OF bisect the angle AOE and meet AE in F, Wo havo then boa SSeS bar ue a £A0G= % (a right angle) Make the angle OH on the other side of OA equal to the ‘angle AOG, and let GA produced meot OH in H. Thea £GOH = 4, (aright angle). ‘Thus GH is one side of regular polygon of 96 sides cir- cumscribed to the given circle, And, sine (OA: AG > 4673} : 153, > while AB=304, GH =246,— it follows that AB : (perimeter of polygon of 96 sides) [> 4673} : 155 x 96) > 46734: 14685,96 ances 7 See! aprox, 140084, OT} WIth « Aey aera 4873), < ioe (<8 ‘Therefore the circumferones of the cirele (being less than the perimeter of the polygon) is @ fortiori loss than 3} times the diameter AB IL Noxt let AB be the diameter of a circle, and let. AO, ‘meeting the circle in 0, make the puncte of aright angle. Join BC. Then AC: OB v9 :1} <1ss1 :F00. [— Firat lot AD bine the angle BAC and meet BO in d and [ the ite nD, Join 2D. Then 2BAD=2dao = 2aBo, and the angles st D, Care both right angles, Te follows that tho triangles ADB, (Cd) BD@Are similar, =AB: Ba [Evel VI. 8] =AB+AC: Bd+0a (V1) =4B+A0: BO or BA+AC: BO=AD: DB. MEASUREMENT OF A CIRCLE. 97 ) tam 40-08-1381: 10, tom toe, | while | Therefore [Hence | AB > ADD : [thus G4: BD < 20194: 740). ‘Secondly, let AE bisect the angle BAD, meeting the circle in Band let BE be joined, ‘Then we prove, in the same way as before, that AE: EB[=BA+AD: BD < (80138 + 2011) : 780, by (1) and (2)) < 50243 : 780 CAB: BE < 18989) Thirdly, let AP bisect the angle BAK, ‘Thus AF: FB[~BA+ AE: BE [It follows that ABT; BF" <(1007" + 66%): 66" << 1018405 Therefore (6). [Pourthly, let the angle pie a AG meeting the circle in @. S| Then AG: GB(=BA + AF: BF] <2016} : 66)by (5) and (6).ARCHIMEDES AB" : BG < {(2016})* + 667} : 66 < 40602844 : 4356] Therefore AB: BG < 2017} : 66, \_ thence (BG: AB> 66 : 20174., [Now the angle BAG which is the res of the angle BA, or of one-third of aright angle, is equal to ‘one-fortyeighth of a right angle. ‘Thus the angle subtended by BG at the centre is ‘te (@ right angle)] ‘Therefore BG is a side of a regular inscribed polygon of 96 sides. Is follows from (7) that (perimeter of polygon) : AB [> 96 x 66 : 20173] 98 [And . sy i s And mie aH Much more then is the circumference of the 344 times the diameter. ‘Thus the ratio of the cireumference to the diameter < 3} but > 349.