Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?
Right, so you’d need 3.14 strings of length D to cover the circle, D wouldn’t wrap around it itself.
It was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.
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.
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.
Alteon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 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.
Alteon@lemmy.world 11 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.