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Figures for Jay Kappraff's
The Arithmetic of Nicomachus of Gerasa
and its Applications to Systems of Proportion

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Fig. 3. The eight-pointed star discovered by Tons Brunés can be used to divide lines into 2,3,4,5,…,8 equal line segments. | top of page | back to text |

Equidivision of lengths by the Brunes square

 

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