• HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    You don’t need to, it’s defined. (Lol). If you take a circle with a circumference of 1, then its circumference will be 1… I think I might have lost some braincells reading this.

    • Kill_John_Lennon@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      He obviously meant to say how do you measure that it’s exactly 1m, even when still in a straight line. Exactly being the key word here.

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        8 months ago

        But is the circumference of the outer circle or inner circle 1m? The wire has a nonzero width.