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If you had a perfect sphere, and pi was it's circumference, what would happen? Would it be complete? Would it grow forever? How fast would it grow?
An experiement -- Would it work?
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It's diameter would be 1 in the same units you used for circumference. Otherwise nothing at all.Shain said:
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All spheres have Pi as the circumference if you arbitrarliy declare a unit system where r=1. That's what Pi means. The units we use (meters, feet) are abitrary and unnecessary and mathematically it is simpler to just use a unit of D=1, so C=Pi.Shain said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_circle
Grow? Why would it grow? And how is this an experiment?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who keeps confusing radius and diameter.russ_watters said:
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Oops. Corrected.Bandersnatch said:I'm glad I'm not the only one who keeps confusing radius and diameter.