Dividers and compasses are drawing instruments that have been used since antiquity to measure distances, transfer lengths from one drawing to another, and draw circles. The Greek mathematician, Euclid ...

Without changing the distance between the pencil and compass point, place your compass at the other end of the line and draw another arc - crossing the first arc in two places. Follow the ...

In geometry a construction is an accurate drawing. There are two main constructions which can be done using a ruler, a pair of compasses and a pencil. Place the compasses on the left-hand endpoint ...