If you are making a dial, then, having drawn a circle, the easiest number of divisions to make on it is 6. Just keep your compasses, or loop of string, or whatever, the way it was, and march around the circumference. And, while you're at it, it's easy to bisect each of those divisions -- just continue the arcs outside the circle, and later lay a straightedge between the intersections and the center of the circle, and tick off the odd 12ths on the circumference.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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