Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 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-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 · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-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-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoNow you’re just being silly.
minus-squareLifter@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-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
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