geometry, the area enclosed by a circle of radius r is πr2. Here the Greek letter π represents the constant ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter...
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A circle is a shape consisting of all points in a plane that are at a given distance from a given point, the centre. The distance between any point of...
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the problem of dividing a circle into areas by means of an inscribed polygon with n sides in such a way as to maximise the number of areas created by the...
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(as in squaring the circle); by synecdoche, "area" sometimes is used to refer to the region, as in a "polygonal area". The area of a shape can be measured...
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the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the area of a given circle by...
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Circular sector (redirect from Sector of a circle)
A circular sector, also known as circle sector or disk sector or simply a sector (symbol: ⌔), is the portion of a disk (a closed region bounded by a circle)...
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In geometry, calculating the area of a triangle is an elementary problem encountered often in many different situations. The best known and simplest formula...
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is only a fraction of what was a longer work. Proposition one states: The area of any circle is equal to a right-angled triangle in which one of the sides...
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Pi (redirect from Circle constant)
The number π (/paɪ/; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal...
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Maynard James Keenan. A Perfect Circle released three of their four studio albums in the early 2000s: their debut Mer de Noms in 2000, a follow-up, Thirteenth...
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Liu Hui's π algorithm (section Area of a circle)
Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century), a mathematician of the state of Cao Wei. Before his time, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was often...
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moment of area, or second area moment, or quadratic moment of area and also known as the area moment of inertia, is a geometrical property of an area which...
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figure its name. Myers's original circle covers only about 10% of the Earth's total surface area, with a radius of around 4,000 kilometers (2,500 mi)...
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Circumference (redirect from Circumference of a circle)
the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. The circumference is the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up and straightened out to a line segment...
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Indiana pi bill (category Squaring the circle)
lengths in the circle but to find a square with the same area as the circle. He knew that Archimedes' formula for the area of a circle, which calls for...
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Archimedes (redirect from Archimedes of Syracuse)
method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems. These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere...
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of exhaustion as a way to compute the area inside a circle by filling the circle with a sequence of polygons with an increasing number of sides and a...
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Integral (redirect from Area under a curve)
area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution...
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A circle of competence is the subject area which matches a person's skills or expertise. The concept was developed by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger...
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Equivalent radius (redirect from Area-equivalent radius)
equivalent radius (or mean radius) is the radius of a circle or sphere with the same perimeter, area, or volume of a non-circular or non-spherical object. The...
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Pi is 3 (section Limit the number of decimal digits)
a major campaign with advertisements that read "The formula for finding the area of a circle: radius x radius x 3!", "Calculate the quadrature of a circle...
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A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with detrimental results. It is a system with...
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Euler diagram (redirect from Eulerian Circle)
vanish by the data of the problem."[italics added](p 73) Given the Venn's assignments, then, the unshaded areas inside the circles can be summed to yield...
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Ellipse (redirect from Auxiliary circle)
constant. It generalizes a circle, which is the special type of ellipse in which the two focal points are the same. The elongation of an ellipse is measured...
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and each circle is surrounded by six other circles. For circles of diameter D and hexagons of side length D, the hexagon area and the circle area are, respectively:...
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Arbelos (section Archimedes' circles)
subtracted from the area of the large circle (with diameter BC). Since the area of a circle is proportional to the square of the diameter (Euclid's Elements...
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A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop, usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s...
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by the area of the circle, so the real problem is to accurately bound the error term describing how the number of points differs from the area. The first...
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Circle K Stores, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and owned by Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc., based in...
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The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66°...
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