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Elegant proofs 2 – The area of a circle

Posted on 02/07/2008 by dougaj4

We are so familiar with the formula for the area enclosed by a circle that we tend not to think much about how it was derived, at least I don’t. The proofs of the formula are in fact many and … Continue reading →

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