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In book III of Euclid's Elements, Proposition 25 gives a method for constructing a circle from a segment of one, but would it not be easier to just use the corollary of Proposition 1 from the same book to find the center of the circle and construct it that way? [reference: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookIII/propIII25.html & http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookIII/propIII1.html]

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