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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Also

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Pi = 4! = 4×3×2 = 24

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Omfg why can’t I figure out why this does not work. Help me pls

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's because no matter how many corners you cut it's still an approximation of the ~~circumference~~ area. There's just an infinite amount of corners that sticks out

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There’s just an infinite amount of corners that sticks out

Yes. And that means that it is not an approximation of the circumference.

But it approximates the area of the circle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

True, thanks for the correction

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

It's a fractal problem, even if you repeat the cutting until infinite, there are still a roughness with little triangles which you must add to Pi, there are no difference between image 4 and 5, the triangles are still there, smaller but more. But it's a nice illusion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because you never make a circle. You just make a polygon with a perimeter of four and an infinite number of sides as the number of sides approaches infinity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

But if you made a regular polygon, with the number of sides approaching infinity, it would work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly what I was expecting haha(I mean the video)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The lines in this are askew and it's mildly annoying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

They're there to askew why the logic doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Does this work with triangles too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That approach works for area but not for perimeter, because cutting off the corners gives you a shape whose area is closer to the circle's, but it doesn't change the perimeter at all.