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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Even in Geometry there is no such thing as a perfect circle. If there was we’d have found the final decimal place for Pi by now. No matter how many points are used to define a circle at any radius, it will still have its corners at every point.


10 posted on 03/15/2018 3:15:10 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: equaviator

A circle has four sides: inside, outside, top and bottom.


22 posted on 03/15/2018 4:43:25 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: equaviator

IIRC, isn’t there something about using calculus to find the limit of perimeter of a polygon as number of sides approaches infinity? It’s been many years.


25 posted on 03/15/2018 5:29:46 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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