Bisecting a Line Segment Using Sticks of Equal Length

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This Demonstration shows a construction of the perpendicular bisector of the segment using sticks of a given length
. For this construction, it is necessary that
. The dark green sides are all of length
. The line
is the perpendicular bisector of
, and
is the midpoint of
.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (September 2017)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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This Demonstration illustrates the construction of Figure 8.7 in [1, p. 115].
Reference
[1] G. E. Martin, Geometric Constructions, New York: Springer, 1998.
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Published: September 14 2017