construct an equilateral triangle with out knowing its scale

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How do i construct an arbitrary equilateral triangle with out knowing its scale?

for e.g. pick two points a and b. make $60$ degree acute angles at point $a$ and point $b$ and the two angles meet at point $c$. This looks like a complete layman solution for drawing an equilateral triangle with out knowing its scale. Can anyone suggest me alternative approaches for this problem?

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The following is just your construction, with details made explicit. Let $A$ and $B$ be any two distinct points. Use a compass to draw the circle with centre $A$ that passes through $B$. Then draw the circle with centre $B$ that passes through $A$.

The two circles meet at points $C$ and $D$. Each of $\triangle ABC$ and $\triangle ABD$ is equilateral. For let $r$ be the radius of the circles. Then $AB=r$. But since $C$ is on each circle, we also have $AC=BC=r$.

Remark: This is Proposition 1, Book I of Euclid's Elements.