Lifter to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf you squint hard enough, the capital letter pi (Π) looks like half a circle.message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down126file-text
arrow-up1-21arrow-down1message-squareIf you squint hard enough, the capital letter pi (Π) looks like half a circle.Lifter to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoWhat is this Cunningham’s law? Pi is not half the circumference. It’s how many times the diameter fits into the circumference.
minus-squareLifterOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoIt is half of the circumference, multiplied by the radius, of course. like in this image I found online
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s not half the circumference then is it???
minus-squareLifterOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoI can level up with more sources (stanford, wiki). The circumference is 2pi x radius, which obviously means half the circumference is pi x radius. Edit: formatting. Asterisk results in italics
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
What is this Cunningham’s law?
Pi is not half the circumference. It’s how many times the diameter fits into the circumference.
It is half of the circumference, multiplied by the radius, of course.
like in this image I found online
That’s not half the circumference then is it???
Now you’re just being silly.
I can level up with more sources (stanford, wiki).
The circumference is 2pi x radius, which obviously means half the circumference is pi x radius.
Edit: formatting. Asterisk results in italics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi