• NeatNit
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    3 months ago

    Usually when that happens there’s a way to tie it back to circles, but it’s not always easy to find

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      3 months ago

      You could say you just go round and round hunting for it, but no matter how hard you try you just can’t corner it.

      Well, you could.

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      2 months ago

      there’s a way to tie it back to circles

      Not necessarily circles, but conic sections. When you take a series of a fixed exponent over a variable x, and graph it, that graph is a parabola.

      A parabola is a slice through a cone. Tada, pi appears.