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Circle with infinite circumferance

raah! · 2008-06-04 14:52:50

I was wondering if anyone here knew what this was all about. At first it makes sense, but then when you think about it it stops working heh, it's that "a circle with an infinte circumferance is an infinite straight line". Now this is fine, as when the circumferance tends to infinity the slope tends to 0. But if it's…

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#32 13-06-2008 11:42AM

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Gurgle wrote: »

^^ And there we have the difference between mathematicians and engineers

LOL

Oh and I have another thing you guys can fight over.
That 0.999999~ = 1

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#33 13-06-2008 11:45AM

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I think there's too much reading into this going on. But agree its a difficult concept.

When i did my degree we used circles of infinite radius to encompass all point in the positive y plane when performing complex integrations.

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