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Unfortunately the ancients didn't invent calculus. Pi had been in use a long time when Liebniz and Newton came along.
by hinkley 2y ago
Unfortunately the ancients didn't invent calculus. Pi had been in use a long time when Liebniz and Newton came along.
- deathanatos 2y agoAnother way to look at that would have been visible to non-calculus bearing ancients: A = πr² C = πD … why do we arbitrarily use r in one equation, and D in the other? (… because we're using the wrong constant, and it bugs us, and we're sweeping that under the mathematical rug.)