Comment on suck it, math nerds

• RandomStickman@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it's because no matter how many corners you cut it's still an approximation of the circumference. There's just an infinite amount of corners that sticks out

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s just an infinite amount of corners that sticks out

    Yes. And that means that it is not an approximation of the circumference.

    But it approximates the area of the circle.

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    • RandomStickman@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, thanks for the correction

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a fractal problem, even if you repeat the cutting until infinite, there are still a roughness with little triangles which you must add to Pi, there are no difference between image 4 and 5, the triangles are still there, smaller but more. But it’s a nice illusion.

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• ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because you never make a circle. You just make a polygon with a perimeter of four and an infinite number of sides as the number of sides approaches infinity.

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But if you made a regular polygon, with the number of sides approaching infinity, it would work.

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/VYQVlVoWoPY

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly what I was expecting haha

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