All of these are good suggestions, JETalmage, all of them helped me find the answer. All I was trying to do was divide a straight line, whether a path or a line was not important, but, yes, straight, into equal segments of any number (5 segments, 7, 4.35, whatever). This was purely a matter of finding a solution of proportions to work with. The Zigzag tool is nice but it gives you a zigzag -- not what I wanted. I think this question has been answered, and I thank you all. I'm glad to see that there are so many solutions -- just as I suspected. Does anyone know of a "use Illustrator to solve geometrical problems" web page somewhere? Just curious. . .. Can you divide a line into the Golden Section with Illustrator? Let's call this case closed. And muchas gracias to all of you. Seriously.
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