• @[email protected]
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    1112 months ago

    I’m allways astonished by how many function seemingly have nothing to do with circles and yet somehow a pi managed to snuck itself in

    • @[email protected]
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      602 months ago

      Usually when that happens there’s a way to tie it back to circles, but it’s not always easy to find

      • @[email protected]
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        302 months ago

        You could say you just go round and round hunting for it, but no matter how hard you try you just can’t corner it.

        Well, you could.

      • @xantoxis
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        152 months ago

        there’s a way to tie it back to circles

        Not necessarily circles, but conic sections. When you take a series of a fixed exponent over a variable x, and graph it, that graph is a parabola.

        A parabola is a slice through a cone. Tada, pi appears.