183.--DRAWING A SPIRAL.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Make a fold in the paper, as shown by the dotted line in the illustration. Then, taking any two points, as A and B, describe semicircles on the line alternately from the centres B and A, being careful to make the ends join, and the thing is done. Of course this is not a _true_ spiral, but the puzzle was to produce the _particular_ spiral that was shown, and that was drawn in this simple manner.

[Illustration]

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