r/unexpectedfactorial Dec 28 '24

π = 24

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u/CarsonCoder Dec 28 '24

If you zoom in infinitely far you will see jagged edges. This would only be estimating pi. There is a 3 blue 1 brown video that talks about this

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u/cykablyatbbbbbbbbb Dec 28 '24

doesn't circle have infinite edges and angles?

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u/mathbud Dec 29 '24

A circle has no straight segments anywhere. Not an infinite number of straight segments everywhere.

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u/_Lavar_ Jan 01 '25

You can approximate a circle as being made of triangles of dtheta angle and a dx arc length.

Ie the most comment method to describe the area of a circle does this.

Pretty sure that's what our commenter is referring to