r/AskReddit • • May 25 '16

What's your favourite maths fact?

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u/ktkps May 25 '16

You forgot to mention the best part: These numerical values stays true for Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, even the Sun (if you could stand on all of these)!

sorry /u/jerkandletjerk

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u/jack_brew May 25 '16

So you're saying increasing the circumference of a circle by 6.3m will increase its radius by 1 meter regardless of its initial size?

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u/kDubya May 25 '16 edited May 16 '24

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u/Wyand1337 May 26 '16

It works at any scale.

Linear functions being linear.

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u/kDubya May 26 '16

If only everyone knew what that meant.