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To: mathprof
Did you know you could also use pi to figure out the circumference of a circle?
5 posted on 12/23/2006 7:09:17 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Mark was here

Or the area of a sphere


9 posted on 12/23/2006 7:10:34 AM PST by mathprof
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To: Mark was here

The idea behind 'pi' is arrived at out of the realisation that for every circle, no matter what size, the ratio of its circumference to its diameter, is a constant.


19 posted on 12/23/2006 7:20:17 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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