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DescriptionApproximately squaring the circle.svg |
Ramanujan's construction of an approximate value of |
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Own creation using eukleides and inkscape. The eukleides code is as follows: box(-1, 6, 7, -2) P = point(0, 2) R = point(6, 2) PR = segment(P, R) draw(PR) c1 = circle(P, R) O = center(c1) draw(c1) H = barycenter(P, O) draw(H) T = barycenter(O, 1, R, 2) Q0 Q intersection(perpendicular(PR, T), c1) TQ = segment(T, Q) draw(TQ) c2 = circle(R, length(TQ)) S S0 intersection(c1, c2) RS = segment(R, S) draw(RS) PS = segment(P, S) draw(PS) N = intersection(parallel(RS, T), line(P, S)) TN = segment(T, N) draw(TN) M = intersection(parallel(RS, O), line(P, S)) OM = segment(O, M) draw(OM) PM = segment(P, M) c3 = circle(P, length(PM)) K K0 intersection(c1, c3) PK = segment(P, K) draw(PK) MN = segment(M, N) c4 = circle(P, length(MN)) L L0 intersection(perpendicular(PR, P), c4) PL = segment(P, L) draw(PL) RL = segment(R, L) draw(RL) RK = segment(R, K) draw(RK) KL = segment(K, L) draw(KL) RH = segment(R, H) c5 = circle(R, length(RH)) C0 C intersection(line(R, K), c5) D = intersection(parallel(KL, C), line(R, L)) CD = segment(C, D) draw(CD) draw("C", C, 0.1, 315:) draw("D", D, 0.1, 70:) draw("H", H, 0.1, 270:) draw("K", K, 0.1, 250:) draw("L", L, 0.1, 180:) draw("M", M, 0.1, 120:) draw("N", N, 0.1, 120:) draw("O", O, 0.1, 270:) draw("P", P, 0.1, 180:) draw("Q", Q, 0.1, 75:) draw("R", R, 0.1, 0:) draw("S", S, 0.1, 30:) draw("T", T, 0.1, 45:) |
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Ineligible for copyright, I believe, because both image and construction are in the public domain. |
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current | 20:13, 14 July 2007 | ![]() | 720 × 720 (23 KB) | GrafZahl (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=Ramanujan's construction of an approximate value of <math>\sqrt{\pi}</math>. If <math>|OR|=1</math>, then <math>|RD|^2=3.1415929\ldots\approx\pi</math>, see Image:Squaring the circle.djvu |Source=Own creation using [[w:euk |
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