"Aliquot part" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comparatively small part of the hypocycloid traced by rolling the smaller pitch-circle within the larger. It is self-evident that the hypocycloid must return into itself at the point of beginning, without crossing: each branch, then, must subtend an aliquot part of the circumference, and can be traced also by another and a smaller describing circle, whose diameter therefore must be an aliquot part of the diameter of the outer pitch-circle; and since this last must be ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 • Various |
