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29 October, 04:41

A polygon with very many sides has the same circumference/area as a circle with the same radius, so is a circle just a polygon with a lot of sides?

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  1. 29 October, 04:46
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    This is part of the study of geometry.

    Yes, a circle is technically a polygon "with a lot of sides", but that "a lot" would actually lean more towards the concept of infinity; a circle is a polygon with an infinitely large amount of sides.

    By reducing the size of the measurement, or increasing the accuracy (in this case by increasing sides), one gets a result closer to the actual one.

    This concept has been reused for the creation of other fields of mathematics, such as calculus.
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