Timeline for How many sides does a circle have?
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| Jun 30, 2023 at 4:07 | comment | added | Jared | If you assume a staircase approximates a straight line, then a square (if we assume we can only take horizontal/vertical steps) doesn't exist. It's still wrong--but even worse now, you're arguing a straight line doesn't exist! | |
| May 4, 2020 at 5:05 | comment | added | Laurence Renshaw | This is an excellent response to those who think that a circle has infinite sides. Those people are assuming that 'side' means 'straight edge', whereas my belief is that side means 'smooth edge' (at least in this context). My daughter (8) had the same question in her schoolwork today, and she put 0, but I told her it should be 1 (and yes, I am a mathematician). | |
| Jul 2, 2019 at 20:36 | history | edited | J. W. Tanner | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 1 character in body |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 9:21 | comment | added | tarit goswami | @DouglasS.Stones If taking limits in this way were legitimate then we can show that e.g. a square has an infinite number of sides. is a good example of similar flaw, but, not clear where the flaw or what the flaw is. Can you please explain the logical flaw then? Why we can't take limit here? | |
| Nov 29, 2012 at 10:20 | comment | added | Martin Argerami | @Douglas: I think the reasoning was not like that, but on the line of "a triangle has three tangents, a square has four, and a circle has infinitely many. | |
| Aug 26, 2012 at 18:44 | comment | added | Zeta.Investigator | @Douglas: 1.Define "line"? 2. Define "Gluing" | |
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| Nov 13, 2011 at 15:35 | history | edited | Quixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 24 characters in body |
| Oct 11, 2011 at 5:44 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | Hehehe... | |
| Oct 11, 2011 at 5:33 | history | answered | Douglas S. Stones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |