I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my ...
Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...
The perimeter of a circle is called the circumference. The shortest distance from the centre to the circumference is called the radius. The line across the centre of a circle is the diameter, this is ...
The circumference of a circle is the distance around the circle. It is another name for the perimeter of a circle. The circumference of a circle is calculated using the formula: \(\text{circumference} ...
You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...