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So if you're like me you probably don't carry around a protractor everywhere you go
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and even if you do, you sometimes you want to have only the angles you want, because you needed a whole bunch
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without all those other degrees getting in the way. This is the need that the Angle-A-Tron fufills.
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A protractor is kinda like a 180 degree Angle-A-Tron. It's great at 180 degrees.
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You can make your own 180 degree Angle-A-Tron super easily from any piece of paper.
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Even if your paper doesn't have an edge, you can just fold it and ta-da Angle-A-Tron!
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One extremely useful Angle-A-Tron is the 90 degree Angle-A-Tron.
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Many pieces of paper come pre-equipped with one of these,
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but, if they dont, you can get one by folding a 180 degree Angle-A-Tron in half.
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Now, you can draw all sorts of "rectangley things" and "perpendicularites".
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Following the "fold stuff in half" method you can get a 45 degree Angle-A-Tron pretty easily,
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or a 22.5 degrees, or a 11.25, and so on.
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And you get these weird looking numbers, but that's only because we started with something
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arbitrary, like 360 degrees, when, really the numbers we are looking at
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are a half, a fourth, an eighth, a sixteenth,
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you know, one over two to the n. It's not hard to fold paper into thirds, either.
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Might take a litte evening out, then BAM!
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180 degrees turns into 60 degrees, good for making equilateral triangles.
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Or put two together and get 120 degrees, a very common and useful angle.
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For when, say, bubbles meet, If you're drawing bubbles. Or honeycombs, or something.
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Then you can start adding them together, 135 degrees is easy, 90 degrees plus 45 degrees.
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Now you can make puzzles for yourself. Say you make a 60 degree Angle-A-Tron, and a 135 degree Angle-A-Tron,
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How do you make an Angle-A-Tron that completes the circle?
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Or, if a friend gives you an Angle-A-Tron, can you make a Complementary, or supplementary, I forget which is which,
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Angle-A-Tron? And then, let me know if this is going a little bit too far, maybe you can put an Angle-A-Tron on
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your Angle-A-Tron. And now, I have a 60 degrees, and another 60 degrees, which comes over here,
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to make another 60 degrees, and now I have an equilateral Triangle Polygon-A-Tron!
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And just in case you thought that wasn't going to far, Why not make that a Polyhedron-A-Tron?