Squaring the Circle

A circle's constant is π/4 and a square is 1. (π/4)=/=1. That's also how we derive calculus, is through this same idea, of a curve proportioning area. You can multiply π/4 with any number, and get a relative circle constructed inside the square. Interestingly, the perimeter of the square and area, will always coincide with the circle's perimeter and area. They're just fundamentally different numbers, though.

You could say the same for a hexagon constructed in a square, but again, you can't square the hexagon ether, as there will be an eccentricity ascribed to it, such as the square root of 2 is for a square. Sure you can probably get a number to fit in a square made from a hexagon, but like a square has an eccentricity of square root of two, a circle's is consistently π/4 on all sides--hence why intersecting chords theorem works. So it's a bit different, but a hexagon will have an eccentricity like π/4 or square root of two, too. How that would be used, I don't know.

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