If you squint hard enough, the capital letter pi (Π) looks like half a circle.

Maybe this is why pi was chosen for half of the circumference of a circle.

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Lumidaub@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

If you don't squint, it looks like a table. Maybe whoever chose it hadn't had lunch yet.

[insert pie joke here]

I gotta squint pretty hard lol

What is this Cunningham's law?

Pi is not half the circumference. It's how many times the diameter fits into the circumference.

Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 3y (4 replies)

It is half of the circumference, multiplied by the radius, of course.

That's not half the circumference then is it???

Now you're just being silly.

Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I can level up with more sources (stanford, wiki).

The circumference is 2pi x radius, which obviously means half the circumference is pi x radius.

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