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Old 01-27-2008, 12:21 PM
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Re: How did they come up with Pi?

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Originally Posted by Scott View Post
Congratulations. This is now my "quote of the day," and this is the first thread I've read. Nothing will be able to trump it, though.


The ratio π applies to everything: All calculations involving movement that isn't a straight line, which happens to be quite a lot.

π radians is the usual method for expressing angles in trigonometry, as an angle is just going around a circle.

So, yeah. it's useless in 6th grade or whatever, but not in general.
I think Scott covered it in his explaination. Otherwise Pi is just there to compute the circumference of a Circle.
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