"we've squared the circle"

« **Reply #20 on:** July 06, 2011, 08:59:05 am »

Quote from: Doug Holloway on July 06, 2011, 08:02:52 am

Hi Martin

Surely if you square the circle its r to the power 4 x pie squared.

Cheers

Doug

stop!!!!!!!! pleeeeeeeease

« **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2011, 06:33:37 pm »

Only if you have enough area to fill the square formed by drawing four perpendicular lines at 90 degrees to each other at the extremity of the circle. If on the other hand you want a square of the same area of the original circle each side would be of length:

r/ (square root of 2)

« **Reply #22 on:** July 07, 2011, 01:31:40 pm »

Hippocrates was a genius wasn't he

« **Reply #23 on:** July 07, 2011, 10:31:59 pm »

Mercator now tell me why

« **Reply #24 on:** July 12, 2011, 07:59:08 am »

But I like circles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KCULw5HWM

Circles look like bubbles

Helen

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