how to draw a nonagon
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Draw a circle using a compass. Make sure the diameter of the circle is about half the length of the smallest dimensions of the paper you are working on.
Without changing the opening angle of the compass, ‘walk’ it round the circle and hence construct a regular hexagon.
Extend all sides of the hexagon until they meet. Connect up these lines to form a hexagram. (Alternatively use the compass to construct equilateral triangles on top of each edge)
Circumscribe the hexagram using a compass
Connect outer vertices of hexagram with a straight line
Draw an arc from the midpoints of the bottom edges of the hexagon as shown. Mark where this arc crosses the outer circle.
Draw another arc as shown and mark where this intersects the outer circle.
Draw yet another arc as shown and mark where this intersects the outer circle
Connect up the arc intersections with three of the hexagram vertices to construct an (approximate) nonagon*
And Done.