Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 年前If you squint hard enough, the capital letter pi (Π) looks like half a circle.message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up1-22arrow-down1message-squareIf you squint hard enough, the capital letter pi (Π) looks like half a circle.Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 年前message-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 年前What is this Cunningham’s law? Pi is not half the circumference. It’s how many times the diameter fits into the circumference.
minus-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 年前It is half of the circumference, multiplied by the radius, of course. like in this image I found online
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 年前That’s not half the circumference then is it???
minus-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 年前Now you’re just being silly.
minus-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-22 年前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
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 年前https://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