to run suddenly off to battle…
…or to the loo…
…we won't hurt ourselves on the corners. While rectangles have two measurements: length
and width, circles have a radius and a diameter. A circle's radius is the distance from its
center to the outside…
… and its diameter is the distance from one side of the circle all the way to the
opposite side…
… or, simply put, 2 times its own radius. How much simpler could it be?
Not yet convinced? Well, the best thing about the Round Table
is all the pie that comes with it! I don't mean apple or pumpkin pie.
We can get those at the market. I mean “pi.” 3-point-1-4.
The Holy Grail of Numbers. For instance, the distance around the circle
depends on its radius as well as pi!
We simply plug in 2 times pi times the radius, and we get our Circumference.
We can also substitute the 2 and the radius with the circle’s diameter to get our circumference.
But if we're trying to calculate the area of a circle, we'll need pi too.
Pi times the radius squared will give us the Area of our circle.
In conclusion, pi makes the world go round. And if the world goes round, why shouldn't
our table?
