Generator

circle-angle

A generator in the geometry library, called 7 times across 1 essays. Below: what it draws at its defaults and at each mode an essay asks for, what it checks while drawing, and everywhere it is used.

circle-angle is one function. Everything below came out of it during this build, at parameters taken from the essays rather than invented for this page — so a figure here is the same figure a reader meets in an essay, and if the generator changes, this page changes with it.

At its defaults

An angle standing on a chordA circle with a fixed chord and a movable apex on the major arc. The angle at the apex is 60 degrees wherever the apex is put, and the angle the same chord subtends at the centre is 120 degrees.120°60°ABPthe same chordat the apex: 60°at the centre: 120°one is half the other,wherever P is put

show: "same"

Four apexes, one angleThe same chord seen from four different points of the major arc. All four angles are 60 degrees.every angle here is 60°

show: "proof"

Why the angle is halfThe radius through the apex splits the triangle into two isosceles triangles. In each, the angle at the centre is the exterior angle of two equal base angles, so it is twice one of them.35°25°35°25°POABtwo isosceles trianglesOPA: base 35°, apex half 35°OPB: base 25°, apex half 25°apex 60°,centre 120°

show: "thales"

Thales' theoremThe chord is a diameter, so the angle it subtends at the centre is a straight angle and every angle standing on it is exactly a right angle.the angle here is 180°

show: "cyclic"

A quadrilateral inscribed in a circleFour points on a circle. Opposite angles are 93° and 87°, and 90° and 90° — each pair adding to 180°.93°90°87°90°

What it checks while it draws

Collected by running the family and listening to lib/verify.js, not written here. The count is how many separate times this build put that claim to the test.

Where it is called

Changing this generator changes every figure on this list. That is what makes the list worth publishing rather than keeping in a check script.

The whole library · What the figures prove