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An amphitheatre's curved seating row

Angles in a Circle

Everyone in a row is supposed to see the stage equally wide. Build the row straight and the person at its end sees the stage edge-on, through a narrow wedge — same ticket, different show. So the question is: where do the points that see one segment at the same angle actually lie? There is exactly one curve, and the architect does not choose it, they find it.

amphitheatre plan — stage on top, rows are arcseach row is an arc through the two ends of the stageon the arc, every seat: 60°straight row, end seat: 32°

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