• nyctre@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes it does have to be pi because that’s the formula for the volume of a cylinder. If you take a simple, cylindrical glass or container and measure it and apply the formula with pi, you’ll see that you’ll get the correct volume of the container. If you just want your kids to calculate a random x that’s 5* 10 *10 *10 just tell them to do that, don’t give them a made up formula, it’s not that difficult.

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      1 year ago

      None of what you said made any sense to me I still see that little thingy as a symbol and not as a representation of Pi I’m sorry too fucking bad you math nerd. The representation of Pi is the symbols 3.14 not a weird square symbol.

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        1 year ago

        Well, let me put it another way. You don’t need to have an opinion on everything. It’s okay to not understand something and not have an opinion on it.