Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right, so you’d need 3.14 strings of length D to cover the circle, D wouldn’t wrap around it itself.

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what I gathered, but it’s backwards. C = Pi D means you need pi strings, not that it’ll cover the circle pi times.

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      • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ahhhh. I see what your saying. It’s fixed.

        Yeah. Did not mean to intend that it wraps fully around the circle pi times. Good catch.

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