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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (27660)6/27/2012 12:17:31 AM
From: Greg or e   of 69300
 
Date: 12/17/2003 at 12:57:12
From: Doctor Ian
Subject: Re: Theoretical Question about Circumference and Diameter

Hi Mark,

A lot of people get confused by thinking that pi is something that is
determined by actually _measuring_ physical circles. It's not.

Pi is the ratio of circumference to diameter for any _mathematical_
circle. But there are no mathematical circles in the real world, so
we can't ever find pi by measuring something:

Why Pi?
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/61017.html

Does this help?

- Doctor Ian, The Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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