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...
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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 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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(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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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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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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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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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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Circular sector (redirect from Sector of a circle)
of a full circle, respectively. The arc of a quadrant (a circular arc) can also be termed a quadrant. The total area of a circle is πr2. The area of the...
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Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC), formerly known as San Francisco Film Critics Circle, was founded in 2002 as an organization of film journalists...
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Tau (mathematics) (redirect from Tau (circle constant))
both circle constants relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension: the radius in the case of 𝜏; the diameter in the case of π. While...
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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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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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Pi (redirect from Circle constant)
(/paɪ/ ; spelled out as pi) is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter....
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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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In mathematics, a Ford circle is a circle in the Euclidean plane, in a family of circles that are all tangent to the x {\displaystyle x} -axis at rational...
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Archimedes (redirect from Archimedes of Syracuse)
method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove many geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere...
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Arbelos (section Archimedes' circles)
perpendicular to BC at A. Then the area of the arbelos is equal to the area of a circle with diameter HA. Proof: For the proof, reflect the arbelos over the...
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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 miles)...
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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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Solid angle (redirect from Angular area)
area of a segment of a unit sphere in steradians is analogous to giving the length of an arc of a unit circle in radians. Just as the magnitude of a plane...
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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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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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"The 2024 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. Archived from the original on...
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Washington Circle is a traffic circle in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., United States. It is located on the border of the Foggy Bottom and...
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a copy of an older, Middle Kingdom text) implies an approximation of π as 256⁄81 ≈ 3.16 (accurate to 0.6 percent) by calculating the area of a circle...
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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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area of a circle. But it was not until the late 19th and early 20th centuries that measure theory became a branch of mathematics. The foundations of modern...
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Circumference (redirect from Circumference of a circle)
circumferēns 'carrying around, circling') is the perimeter of a circle or ellipse. The circumference is the arc length of the circle, as if it were opened up...
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the Malfatti circles are three circles inside a given triangle such that each circle is tangent to the other two and to two sides of the triangle. They...
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