Because we conceptualise things by watering them down so that they’re more malleable and universal, but not so far that they’re unrepresentative of how reality works.
While there is no ‘curve’ or ‘circle’ in reality, them just being concepts we made, it’s useful to use pi because it’s a useful tool that works within the models we invented.
There’s a lot of things in the world that conform to certain rules, and we called those ‘circular’ and invented tools to deal with ‘circular’ things.
Because we conceptualise things by watering them down so that they’re more malleable and universal, but not so far that they’re unrepresentative of how reality works.
While there is no ‘curve’ or ‘circle’ in reality, them just being concepts we made, it’s useful to use pi because it’s a useful tool that works within the models we invented.
There’s a lot of things in the world that conform to certain rules, and we called those ‘circular’ and invented tools to deal with ‘circular’ things.
Pi isn’t to do with circles. It is a fundamental constant underpinning many aspects of mathematics, one of those happens to be circles.
It is actually the period of a function that is the very core to many aspects of modern mathematics, but sadly I do not understand the field well enough to give an ELI5.
Pi isn’t to do with circles. It is a fundamental constant underpinning many aspects of mathematics, one of those happens to be circles.
It is actually the period of a function that is the very core to many aspects of modern mathematics, but sadly I do not understand the field well enough to give an ELI5.
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