I am wrong in thinking the circumference or the diameter of a circle has to be rational?

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Right, so you’d need 3.14 strings of length D to cover the circle, D wouldn’t wrap around it itself.

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      9 months ago

      It was implied that it would wrap around the circle. I’ll update original post to clarify better.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah that’s what I gathered, but it’s backwards. C = Pi D means you need pi strings, not that it’ll cover the circle pi times.

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          9 months ago

          Ahhhh. I see what your saying. It’s fixed.

          Yeah. Did not mean to intend that it wraps fully around the circle pi times. Good catch.