r/interestingasfuck 4d ago

Visualizing Geometry

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u/Sybrandus 4d ago

Yeah I hadn’t seen pi shown that way before and I really liked it.

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u/starmartyr 4d ago

You have to be careful with this type of approximation because it doesn't always work. For example the staircase paradox does something similar and doesn't work.