@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 5 months agoMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?message-square42fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareMath question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle?@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•5 months agoRight, so you’d need 3.14 strings of length D to cover the circle, D wouldn’t wrap around it itself.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•5 months agoIt was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•5 months agoYeah 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•5 months agoAhhhh. 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.
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.