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"And what if I've been trying to trisect the angle?"

There are several ways to use the curve to trisect an angle.

Why is it not possible to trisect every angle using a compass and straightedge?

"Men have tried to trisect the angle because that is an impossibility that looks possible.

It is, however, possible to trisect an arbitrary angle, but using tools other than straightedge and compass.

For example it was unknown to the Greeks that it is in general impossible to trisect a given angle.

In 1854, the California State Assembly passed a plan to trisect the state.

In geometry, a trisectrix is a curve which can be used to trisect an arbitrary angle.

There are certain curves called trisectrices which, if drawn on the plane using other methods, can be used to trisect arbitrary angles.

Another means to trisect an arbitrary angle by a "small" step outside the Greek framework is via a ruler with two marks a set distance apart.

The Archimedean spiral, studied by Archimedes as a method to trisect an angle and square the circle.

Although Archimedes did not discover the Archimedean spiral, he employed it in this book to square the circle and trisect an angle.

US Interstate Highways I-24, I-40 and I-65 trisect the Division.

As shown first by Apollonius of Perga, a hyperbola can be used to trisect any angle, a well studied problem of geometry.

Pierre Laurent Wantzel proved that it is impossible to double the cube, trisect the angle, and constructing a regular polygon using only compass and straightedge.

Loy, Jim "Trisection of an Angle", Part VI Gives 5 different ways to trisect an angle using this curve.

With these concepts, Pierre Wantzel (1837) proved that straightedge and compass alone cannot trisect an arbitrary angle nor double a cube, nor to construct a square equal in area to a given circle.

Although the tomahawk may itself be constructed using a compass and straightedge, and may be used to trisect an angle, it does not contradict Pierre Wantzel's 1837 theorem that arbitrary angles cannot be trisected by compass and unmarked straightedge alone.

In an ordinary bout that vibrating blade could be counted on to bi- or trisect the nearest opposing Security rep within twenty seconds of gates-up, but Steve was an unforgiving fighter, and a monstrously quick one, second only to Ho Ng in the rankings.

Other 19th-century mathematicians utilized this in their proofs that straightedge and compass alone are not sufficient to trisect an arbitrary angle, to construct the side of a cube twice the volume of a given cube, nor to construct a square equal in area to a given circle.

This dictum led to a deep study of possible compass and straightedge constructions, and three classic construction problems: how to use these tools to trisect an angle, to construct a cube twice the volume of a given cube, and to construct a square equal in area to a given circle.

To use the tomahawk to trisect an angle, it is placed with its handle line touching the apex of the angle, with the blade inside the angle, tangent to one of the two rays forming the angle, and with the spike touching the other ray of the angle.

Note that the fact that there is no way to trisect an angle in general with just a compass and a straightedge does not mean that it is impossible to trisect all angles: for example, it is relatively straightforward to trisect a right angle (that is, to construct an angle of measure 30 degrees).