eli5: What does it mean that you can’t “square a circle”? Couldn’t you just take a circle with diameter 2, and then a 2×2 square ?
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A circle with diameter 2 has an area of pi.
To make a square that has an area of pi, you’ll need the sides to be the square root of pi, and since pi is a seemingly endless number, so is its square root.
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